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THE MOST WONDERFUL BOOK OF THE AGE! 



THE 

POLITICAL CONTESTS 

IN THE 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

EXPLAINED AND CONSIDERED AS 

CONFIRMATORY OF THE PROPHECY 

IN 

DANIEL XI., 5-45: 

EMBRACING THE 

^VPEEIOD FROM THE ORIGIN OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES TO 
^ THE PRESENT TIME ; IN WHICH IS CLEARLY SHOWN 

THE LATE 

CIVIL WAR OF 1861- '65, 

TOGETHEE 

^YITH THE RULE OF THE RADICAL PARTY SINCE THE SURRENDER OF 
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. 

By rev. JAMES A. CLEMENT. 



*'/ will also show mine opinion" — Paul. 



MONTGOMERY, ALA. : 

BAKUETT & BROWN, PKINTERS AND EINDEKS. 
1869. 



THE 3IOST WONDERFUL BOOK OF THE AGE! 



THE •/j.iS^- •■■'^"^ 

POLITICAL CONTESTS 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 



EXPLAINED AND CONSIDERED AS 



CONFIRMATORY OF THE PROPHECY 



DANIEL XI., M5: 

EMBKACING THE 

PEEIOD FROM THE ORIGIN OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES TO 

THE PRESENT TIME ; IN WHICH IS CLEARLY SHOWN 

THE LATE 

CIVIL WAR OF 1861- '65, 

TOGETHER 

WITH THE RULE OF THE RADICAL PARTY SINCE THE SURRENDER OF 
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, 

By key. JAMES A. CLEMENT. 



"J will also show mine opinion" — Paul. 



MONTGOMERY, ALA. : 

BAERETT & BEOWN, PKINTEES AND BINDERS. 
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THOMAS tWlMQUl U-^ 

OCTOBER 23, J W ^ i:^^ 



tWUBRABY 



COPYEIGHT APPLIED FOK. 



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DEDICATION. 



To all persons of Caucasiari blood; 
To all the legitimate descendants of Japheth ; 
To all Lovers of correct Law and Order ; 

To all lovers of Peace, Quiet, National Happiness and Prosperity; 
To all lovers of the Constitution of ouf. Countky as framed by oub 
Fathkbs, and administered by the immortal Washington ; 

THIS TREATISE, 

WRITTEN WITH A PERFECT CONVICTION OF ITS TRUTHFULNESS, IS HEREBY 

Most Respectfiilly Dedicated 
BY THE AUTHOE. 



I^REFA^CE. 



"Paul tlioii art beside thyself ; but he said, I am not mad, most noble 
Festus ; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness." So said one 
^n ancient times, so say we. 

The writer has been watching, with undying interest, the Prophecy 
alluded to in the Title page, since 1861, and has seen it gradually fulfilled 
up to this time. Hence, in the conclusions at which he has arrived in re- 
gard to the different features of the Prophecy, he has been as careful as 
possible to avoid anything of a chimerical nature. He has also bestowed 
nuu'h thought and labor in attempting to arrive at the true meaning of 
the symbolic characters introduced by the prophet, and in so doing, he 
has availed himself of all the authorities within his reach ; and although 
in every instance the proper credit be not given, the intelligent reader 
will be able to refer to them, and will find that we have not transcended 
the bounds of propriety, nor contravened the analogy of faith in tlxeir 
exegesis and application. 

Some persons of a sensitive character might be led to infer that some 
of our allusions are rather severe and personal ; but we wish it distinctly 
understood, we are no partisan — -being neither Whig nor Democrat, Fed- 
eralist nor Republican, but a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ- 
having never meddled with politics, we have come to our conclusions as 
herein expressed from a careful and unbiassed investigation of the subject. 
And if any one, of any party, shall or may feel himself aggrieved from 
any thing herein written, all we have to say is, let not the controversy be 
with the writer, but go and settle the matter with the Prophet, who "spake 
as he was moved by the Holy Ghost," and if that Spirit points with un- 
erring fidelity the shaft of truth to his heart, or his doings, saying "Thou 
art the man," then let him acknowledge his sin or his error as readily as 
did David. 

Just here, we wish to remind the reader, that to interpret prophecy, 
is not prophecying, and the cause of ti'uth and the Word of God should 
not suffer from the cant of him who would curl the lip of scorn or ridi- 



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cule, and call him a fool who would explain the prophecies! in the only 
legitimate way authorized by Him who spake by holy men of old. If, 
then, we should find in history and constantly recurring events, such 
facts as agree with prophetic declarations, though they be uttered by sym- 
bols, would we not be justified in putting them down as fulfillments of 
prophecy '? 

Thus, when Isaiah said, ' ' A virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and 
shall call his name Immanuel," Bt. Matthew, ages afterward, says, the vir- 
gin Mary gave birth to a Son, which, he says, was a fulfillment of Isaiah's 
prophecy. So likewise, when Herod atrociously murdered the little chil- 
dren, the Evangelist says, "then was fulfilled that which was spoken by 
Jeremy the prophet, saying : In Rama was there a voice heard, lamenta- 
tion and weeping, and great mourning, Eachel weeping for her children." 
So of all the prophecies of which we have a divine record of their fulfill- 
ment. Here, then, is the divine rule of interpretation given. Whenever, 
then, we find events and occurrences transpiring that fully agree with 
prophecies uttered in the far distant past, we are justified by every rule 
of Biblical interpretation to consider such as fulfillments of those proph- 
ecies. And such we consider the Prophecy of Daniel the Eleventh Chap- 
ter, as here presented for consideration ; for the events and occurrences 
to which allusions are made in this Treatise, appear to be clearly symbol- 
ized in the prophecy. 

The reader will find no hesitation manifested by the writer, until he 
arrives in his reading of the last Phase of the contest. And the reason 
of a hesitation there, is because the events referred to in the Prophecy 
have not yet transpired. For it must be borne in mind, that Prophecy 
cannot be fully understood until verified Ig actual occurrences. It is very 
evident wo are now in, or just entering into this last Phase of the Contest. 
If the latter, then are we upon the eve of another terrible and more awful 
Eevolution than any that has yet occurred. "-Then"— when it does 
come— "let them which be in Judea flee into the mountain— and pray 
that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day ; for 
t/ie/^ shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the 
world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. " 

As Revolutions go not backward, tlic j>eop?eupon this Continent cannot, 
will not long endure the existing state of aflairs, but will assert in the 
majesty of their power, their rights, which will ensue in a mighty con- 
Jlict, and will finally result in the downfall of both parties, and a goat:rn- 
MENT OF a TOTALLY DiFFEEENT NATURE wlll he foundcd upoH the ruins 

thereof. 



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Should this little pamphlet meet with success, the writer may be in- 
duced to elaborate his views as suggested in the latter sentence above 
written, founded entirely upon the predictions contained in the following, 
or twelfth chapter of Daniel ; and which is but a continuation and comple- 
tion of that which is herein considered, 

JAMES A. CLEMENT. 

Selma, Alabama, April 7, 1869. 



CONTENTS. 



DEDICATION Page iii. 

PEEFACE V. 



BIPORTANT PRELIMINAEIES— 

Great Political commotions throughout the world — How can they be ac- 
counted for — God governs nations as well as individuals — Prophecies of a two- 
fold a.ppUcation — As great probability of the United States being subject of 
prophecy as Persia and Grecia — The writer alone responsible for these views. 

Phase I — 5th Verse. 

Tlie Origin and Character of the two great parties in the Contest introduced 
under their respective symbols — the Democratic Party typified by the King of 
the South — Federal Party under the "prince" or King of the North — Puritans 
— South and North Virginia Colonies — New England springs from the South 
Colony — Confederate and Consolidated governments early developed — John 
Adams — Thomas Jefferson. 

Phase II — 6th Veese. 
Abruptness in the verse — Parties in hostile array— Attempt at a Union — Mis- 
soiu'i Compromise — All fruitless — Though it is an important epoch in the his- 
tory of the government — History confirms the prophecy— Draper — Benton. 



Phase III — 7th, 9th Veeses. 
Andrew Jackson— Great excitement — National Bank — Protective Tariffs — 
Nullification. 

Phase IV— 10th Veese. 
The Federals being foiled hitherto in their eflbrts to obtain the government, 
plant themselves now upon "the moral wrong" of slavery — South loses by ignor- 
ing this Central idea, and resting the cause on the grounds of "necessity" and 
"expediency." Hence arises anti-slavery and abolition societies — assume form 
and notoriety, resulting in the election of A. Lincoln, President, wliich resulted 
from the Missouri measure — Methodist Episcopal Church — Petitions to Con- 
gress. 

Phase V— 11th, 12th Verses. 
The late Civil or Secession War of 1861, '65. 



Phase VI — 13th, 27th Verse. 
Eeorganization and enlargement of the Northern Army — Overthrow of the 
Confederate States government — Negro Emancipation — Deceitful actings with 
the Southern States — Hon. Thaddeus Stevens — A. Lincoln — Heavy taxation — U. 
S. Grant — Comes in f)eaceably — A. Johnson reduced to a cj'pher — Loyal leaguers 
— ^Military rule — Carpet-baggers — Scalawags, &c. 

Phase VII— 28th, 39th Verses. 
Doings of the Radical party continued — Assumes control of the Executive 
and Judicial Departments of the Government— State and Federal— Bondholders 
— President Johnson's Message — Destriiction of the Federal Constitution — Ne- 
gro Equality — Chief Justice Taney — Miscegenation — Abomination of Desola- 
tion — Oppression of the South — Becomes Infidel and Atheistic — Chief Justice 
Taney— Divides the South into Five Military Districts — Our view thus presented, 
makes the prophecy a unit, and therefore reasonable — An objection answered. 

Phase Vin — 40th, 45th Verses. 
Final conflict between the South and the North — The North comes against 
the South with great power — Overruns the country — Three States escape out of 
his hands — Negroes at his steps — Troubled by tidings out of the East and 
North — England— France— Spain — Becomes furious — Eemoves his seat of gov- 
ernment — Minnesota — St. Louis — Meets his downfall. 

EEFLECTIONS— 

God's Word ia true — Be not disquieted — Wait and see the Salvation of the 
Lord — Both parties brought to naught — God works His own way — We should 
pray aright — God will answer prayer — Not desii-ed that Slavery, nor the South- 
ern Confederacy should be restored — Humility and Suffering before exaltation- 
Extracts from Father Ryan. 



THE I>ROP*HECY 



DANIEL XI., 5-45, 

APPLIED TO THE POLITICAL CONTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF 

AMERICA. 



"Then Jeremiah said imto Zedekiah, if I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not 
surely put me to death ? and if I give thee counsel, wUt thou not hearken unto 
mo?" — Jeremiah xxxviii., 15. 

" Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? " 



IMPORTANT PRELIMINARIES. 

Great Political commotions throughout the world— How can they he accounted 
for— God governs Nations as ivell as individuals— Prophecies of a two-fold 
application— As great prohabiUty of the United States being subject of 
prophecy, as Persia and Grecia—The ioriter alone responsible for these 
views. 

We are living in critical and eventful times, the ultimate 
issues of which none can tell. The whole world is in com- 
motion—north, south, east and west ; Europe, Asia, Africa, 
America and Oceanica. Wherever the mind turns, wars 
and rumors of wars, political commotions of the most 
ominous and momentous character are discerned. The 
signs in the political world every where indicate the pres- 
ence of a hidden but surging volcano beneath, whose erup- 
tions are continually anticipated, and may be at any 
moment reahzed. Who can tell ? 

Why ? Boio can these things be accounted for ? Will 
natural causes solve the problem? But when natural 
causes ignore the God of nature, they then become puerile 
and futile. "The fool" alone "hath said in his heart, 
there is no God." But greater is the fool who hath uttered 



it witli his lips, "With such skeptics we have no time to 
lose in controversy. God hath proclaimed that he made 
the heavens and the earth. He hath said, " all souls are 
mine ;" *' the earth and the fullness thereof," and " the cat- 
tle upon a thousand hills " are his also. " In Him we live 
and move, and have our being." By him, " kings are in 
authority." The kingdoms of the world are his. " By 
Him kings reign." Concerning kingdoms, he declares that 
he "plucks up, pulls down and destroys — builds and 
plants," according to his own good pleasure, and no man 
should dare say, lohy or ivliat doest Thou ? 

In His own Word, he has revealed who and what he is ; 
what man is, what he is to be, to do ; what nations, kings- 
doms are — to be, to do ; in all of which he constantly as- 
serts and keeps prominently in view his own divine prerog- 
atives, and His will to maintain them. In all the throes 
and convulsions, or palmy days of the various kingdoms 
and governments of the earth, he has never relinquished 
or compromited his right to govern the world ; but for 
purposes of his own good pleasure, he has permitted them 
to shape their course, whilst he, in the meantime, has "at 
sundry times and in divers manners spoken unto us by the 
prophets " — looking down the long vista of ages, and un- 
folded the rise and fall of empires, kingdoms, nations and 
peoples. 

Everything regarding nations calculated to affect in any 
way the progress of God's great salvation, purchased by 
His Son, he has declared by his prophets. Persia and 
Grecia have not escaped the notice of his All-Seeing eye, 
nor the inspiration of the prophetic pen. 

If, then, the convulsions of the smaller nations of the 
earth were of sufficient importance to attract the notice of 
the Great All-Seeing, how much more would the convul- 
sions of so great a country as the United States, extending 
from sea to sea, and from the frigid to the torrid zone ? 

A series of convulsions have shaken it from centre to cir- 
cumference, extending over a space of nearly an hundred 
years, increasing in magnitude and importance at each sue- 



cessive throe ; affecting not only ber own people, but the 
world, politically, commercially, morally and religiously. 

Can it then be presumed for a moment that God, whilst 
giving in his word a panoramic view of his own workings 
among the nations, would fail to discover to the children of 
men in after ages, the events fraught with such momentous 
consequences as have transpired — that are now transpiring 
— and that will transpire upon this continent ? The infidel 
may sneer, the incredulous may ridicule and laugh, but 

" Deep in unfathomable mines 

Of never-failing skill, 
He treasures up his bright designs, 

And works his sovereign will . 

Blind unbelief is sure to err, 

And scan his work in vain ; 
God is his own interpreter. 

And he will make it plain." 

Men too frequently read with inattention ; fail to com- 
pare scripture with scripture, and with history, and thereby 
miss the true intent of the prophecies and declarations of 
the word of God. In reading or studying the prophets, 
the fact must not be overlooked or lightly thought of, that 
many of the prophecies have a dual or hvo-fold application. 
The one having reference to a near, the other to a more re- 
mote occurrence. Such is the view held and set forth by 
the ablest ecclesiastical authorities. As for example : Dr. 
Adam Clarke, following Calmet, Lowth, Newton, Vitringa, 
Michaelis and Houbigant, says " the same prophecies have 
frequently a double meaniiig, and refer to different events, 
the one near, the other remote. * * * The prophets 
having then several events in their eye, their expressions 
may be partly applicable to one, and partly to another ; 
and it is not always easy to make the transitions. * * * 
What has not been fulfilled in the first, we must apply to 
the second ; and what has been already fulfilled may often 
he considered as typical of lohat still remains to be accom- 
plished.'' " Almost all the prophecies of the old Testament^ 
whatever view they may have to nearer events, are ulti- 
mately to be referred to the New, where only we are to 
look for their full completion." 



Likewise Mr. Watson : " Many of the descriptions of the 
prophets," says he, "had a two-fold character; bearing 
often an immediate reference to present circumstances, and yet 
being in their nature predictions of futute occurrences. 
It is this dmible character of prophecy which occasions 
those unexpected transitions and sudden interchanges of 
circumstances so observable in the prophetic books. 
Hence, different predictions are sometimes blended and 
mixed together ; temporal and spiritual deliverances are 
foretold in one prophecy ; and greater and smaller events 
are combined in one point of view. Hence, likewise one 
chain of connected design runs through the whole scheme 
of prophecy, and a continuation of events successively ful- 
filling, and successively branching out into new predictions, 
continued to confirm the faith and to keep alive the expec- 
tations of the Jews ;" and we may very appropriately add, 
" the expectations " of mankind in general. 

Dr. Home, agreeing with the foregoing, also adds : " It 
is evident that many prophecies must he tahen in a double 
sense in order to understand their full import ; and as this 
two-fold application of them was adopted by our Lord and 
his Apostles, it is a full authority for us to consider and 
apply them in a similar way." 

Again, Mr. Watson says : " The double sense of the scrip- 
ture prophecies, far from originating in any doubt or un- 
certainty as to the fulfillment of them in either sense, 
springs from a foreknowledge of their accomplishment in 
both — whence the prediction is purposely so framed as to 
include both events, which so far from being contrary to 
each other, are tijjncal the one of the other, and are thus 
connected together by a mutual dependency or relation. 
* * * For who but the Being that is infinite in knowl- 
edge and in counsel could so construct predictions as to 
give them a two-fold application to events distant from, 
and, to human foresight, unconnected with each other? 
What power less than divine could so frame them as to 
make the accomplishment of them, in one instance, a sol- 
emn pledge and absurance of their completion in another 



instance of still higher and more universal importance ?" 
We have been thus particular in giving authorities for 
the double meaning of prophecy because it has been claimed 
that the prophecy now under consideration finds its fulfill- 
ment in the kingdoms of Persia and Grecia ; and hence, 
we are to look for nothing farther. But we ask the reader 
seriously to re-read and inwardly digest, the foiegoing ex- 
tracts on the double sense of prophecy ; and we suspect you 
will be incHned to say with us, that while we may, without 
detriment to our opinion on the prophecy now under con- 
sideration, admit its primary or near application to the con- 
vulsions of those kingdoms under Ptolemy Lagus, Seluecus, 
Nicator, Antiochus Epiphanus, (fee, yet we are satisfied the 
prophecies remotely apply to the events of the present day 
on this continent. 

If the reader will trouble himself, for his own edification, 
to examine the whole of this prophecy, extending from Dan- 
iel XI., fifth verse, to the close of chapter twelfth, with 
Matthew XXIV., he will find coincidences satisfactory that 
they refer to the last times spoken of elsewhere in the Word 
of God. But when an analysis of the prophecy is pre- 
sented it will appear more visible, and assumes an impor- 
tance of the most wonderful and momentous character ; 
and should cause politicians of all parties to halt in their 
mad career and ask themselves, What do we ? Shall we 
fight against God ? 

We wish here to state frankly, and desire it to be dis- 
tinctly understood, that we ask not the church to which we 
have the honor to belong, as one of her ministers — we ask 
not any man, or set of men, to endorse the opinions or 
views we may set forth upon this prophecy. They are 
merely the opinions — so far as we know — of no one but 
ourself, and for them we alone are responsible. All we ask 
is, a careful consideration of such opinions as may be ad- 
vanced in their application and verification of the prophecy 
now to be brought under review, and should this small 
efi'ort contribute in any degree to alleviate one pang of sor- 
row amid ten thousand wounded, bleeding hearts, we shall 



feel amply rewarded for our labor. " So mote it be. 
Amen." 



Phase I — Verse fifth. 

The Origin and Character of the two great parties in the Contest intro- 
duced under their respective symbols — The Democratic party typified 
by the King of the South — J'ederal party under the "prince" and king 
of the North — Puritans — South and North Virginia Colonies — New Eng- 
land springs from the South Colony — Confederated and Consolidated 
Governments early developed — John Adams — Thomas Jetferson. 

Verse 5—" And the King of the South shall be strong, and one of his princes ; 
and he shall be strong above him, and have dominiou ; his dominion shall be a 
great dominiou." 

By way of .preface, it is necessary here to remark that in 
this verse we have a statement made of the parties in the 
contest ; and from the manner in which the characters are 
introduced, they must be understood according to the sym- 
bolic meaning of the prophetic writings. 

"Kings" and "princes" convey the idea of bodies politic ; 
and in the case before us, refer to the two great antagonis- 
tic parties rising and contending against each other upon 
this continent. In the " King of the South," we find, at 
this period, the Republican or Democratic party — a party 
entertaining and holding forth a confederated government. 
In the " prince who was strong above him," and in " the 
King of the North," we find the Federal party, small in 
the beginning, but developing itself ultimately in the Bl^ck 
Republican party, and holding forth a Consolidated govern- 
ment , 

This verse, then, gives an epitome of the characters of 
the parties, and may be thus analyzed : " The King of the 
South," or Democratic party, appearing first upon the scene 
of action, refers to the principles of Democracy having 
first obtained upon this continent, and upon which was ulti- 
mately founded the Confederated government of "the Thir- 
teen Colonies," and " the United States of America." The 
principles and the occasion upon which this party or gov- 



ernment was formed, must be sought in the far past ; and 
in so doing, we will clearly see cropping out the germs of 
the two parties. 

And first : " When Hooper, who had gone into exile in 
the latter years of Henry YIII,, was appointed Bishop of 
Gloucester, he, for a time, refused to be consecrated in the 
•vestments which the law required ; and Ms refusal marks 
the era lohen the Furitans first existed as a separate jMrty." 
"The precious sparks of liberty had been kindled and was 
preserved by the Puritans alone." — Bancroft's His., vol. 1, 
pp. 280, 291. Referring to Hooper, Rev. Alex. Campbell 
remarks : " This great man's stern and unbending integrity 
was the first occasion, rather than an actual cause of our 
own glorious Revolution. He was, indeed, the grand pro- 
totype of that noble race of mighty men, the patriarchs of 
civil liberty, the original fathers of the illustrious sister- 
hood of American Republics. * * * Such was the man 
who, with the immortal Rogers, of Smithfield memory, 
roasted in the fire of Papal cruelty, gave the first grand 
impulse to the cause of liberty, civil and religious. At 
their smouldering embers was lit the torch of American hb- 
erty. From their altar, was borne across the seas the sa- 
cred fire that has warmed and illuminated the New World, 
and given to us our free and liberal institutions." — Debate 
tDith Rice, p. 768. 

" The Puritans brought with them and established in the 
New World important principles of civil liberty, which it 
would be unjust here to pass unnoticed. Before they ef- 
fected a landing at Plymouth, they embodied their princi- 
ples in a brief, simple, but comprehensive compact, which 
was to form the basis of their future government. In this 
instrument we have exhibited a perfect equality of rights 
and principles. [The negro is not here included, as he was 
not then thought of.] In the cabin of the Mayflower, the 
Pilgrims met together as equals and as freemen, and in the 
name of God whom they worshipped, subscribed the first 
charter of liberty established in the New World, declaring 



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themselves the source of all the laws that were to be exer- 
' cised over them, and prbmising to the same due subjection 
and obedience. Here was laid the foundation of American 
liberty." " A band of Puritans, dissenters from the estab- 
lished Church of England, persecuted for their religious 
opinions, and seeking in a foreign land that liberty of con- 
science which their own country denied them, became the 
first colonists of New England. — Willsoris His., pp. 158, 
159, 179. 

In order, however, to understand more fully this subject, 
and see its applicability to the prophecy under considera- 
tion, a little insight into the early settlement of this con- 
tinent is to be had. Antedating the period of the arrival 
of the Puritan Fathers in 1620, we find about the year 1606 
there were two Colonial companies formed in England un- 
der grant of King James, destined for Virginia ; the one 
called First or South Colony, the other, Second or North 
Colony of Virginia. The former, or South Colony, founded 
Jamestown, Virginia, 1607 ; the other in 1608 effected a set- 
tlement in Maine, but it soon came to naught. Another 
attempt was made by Captain John Smith, who gave the 
nan^e of New England to all the region around Massachu- 
setts Bay. But nothing of importance was ever done un- 
til 1617, when the North Virginia company negotiated with 
the First or South Viiginia Colony for an extensive coun- 
try in the northern part of the continent, and it was not 
until after " unremitted efforts a patent was at length ob- 
tained from government, under seal of the Virginia com- 
pany, and they now resolved to put their plan in execution 
without delay." The landing of the pilgrims from the 
Mayflower, December 23, 1620, when and where was laid 
the foundation of a town to which they gave the name of 
New Plymouth, was the first result. 

From these facts there are three things to be remarked. 
First, while it may be doubtless true that the principles and 
sentiments of religious and civil liberty were entertained 
by the Puritans anterior to their landing in this country — 
jet, SecowMy, it is also true that " Virginia was the first 



state in the world, composed of separate boroughs, diffused 
over an extensive surface, where the government was or- 
ganized on the principle of universal suffrage." And it 
was upon Virginia soil that was first " established the su- 
premacy of the popular branch, the freedom of trade, the 
independence of religious societies, the security from for- 
eign taxation, and the universal elective franchise." And 
it was in Virginia that was first established " the system of 
representative government and trial by jury as an acknowl- 
edged xigliir—Bancrofes His., pp. 231, 158. And Thirdhj, 
it is very perceptible that the settlements in the New Eng- 
land States grew up and out of the South Virginia Colony. 
Here, then, was the seed sown, which afterward germi- 
nated, grew and ultimately bore the fruits of American 
liberty. But it was not long after the settlement of New 
England before persecutions of a sore character for reli- 
gious and political sentiments sprang up and developed 
themselves within its borders, insomuch that many of the 
colonists were forced into exile, and constrained to seek an 
asylum elsewhere from their enemies and persecutors, 
whilst many others were consigned to prisons and death. 
To this spirit of persecution the State of Ehode Island is 
indebted for its existence. And it may appear strange, yet 
no stranger than true, that while these Puritans had fled 
from mother country and sought an asyhim in the New 
World on account of hberty of conscience, they should, so 
soon after their arrival here, show a disposition and acts 
akin to those from which they had sought a refuge. They 
had a leaning in many respects for the monarchy of the 
Old World. The reader of the history of this country 
needs no proof of this. Now it is from these two compa- 
nies may be dated and reckoned the existence of the two 
parties anterior to, and at the commencement of the Revo- 
lution of 1776. The one known as the Whig or Republi- 
can party, springing from the South Virginia Colony — who 
contended for Republican principles ; and the Tory or Fed- 
eral party, springing from the North Virginia or Plymouth 



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Colony — who held on to the monarchical principles of the 
British Crown. Not that we would have jotm understand 
that this was the universal or popular feeling of the New 
England States, but that these States were more under such 
influences and sentiments than the South Virginia Colony, 
and that American liberty had more to dread from that 
source than any other. Hence at an early day sprang up 
and grew the two great antagonistic doctrines of a confed- 
erated and a consolidated or central government. The latter 
was mostly entertained in the New England States, or the 
North, while the former, or a confederated government was 
maintained in and by the Southern States. 

Now that the reader may be satisfied of such distinct 
parties, we refer him to the following excerpts taken from 
undoubted sources : " The National Republicans of the 
present day [1830] were the Federalists of '98, who be- 
came the Federal Republicans during the war of 1812, and 
were manufactured into National Republicans somewhere 
about the year 1825. As a party (by whatever name dis- 
tinguished) they have always been animated by the same 
principles, and have kept steadily in view a common ob- 
ject, the consolidation of the government," " a consummation 
devoutly to be wished" by them, and "one and indivisible." 

The Democrats, anti-Federalists, &c., " wanted no union 
of the States, or disliked the proposed form of union," and 
strenuously opposed every tendency to a centralized gov- 
ernment." — Hon. Mr. Hayne's Sjxech in Congress, 1830. "A 
Northern Confederacy has been the object for a number of 
years." " This project of separation was formed shortly 
after the adoption of the Federal constitution. Whether 
it was ventured before the public earlier than 1796, I know 
not. But of its promulgation in that year, there is the 
most indubitable evidence," as may be seen by reference to 
the Pelliam papers published in Hartford, Connecticut. 
" It is eighteen years since this dangerous project was pro- 
mulgated. From that period to the present, [1814] it has 
not been one hour out of view." — Olive Brancli, pp. 269, 
270, 9. So great was the excitement, and so nigh did it 



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come rending tlie government at the time, that the author 
of the " OKve Branch " said, " The national vessel is on 
rocks and quicksand, and in danger of shipwreck." 

Here then, we have " the King of the South," who shall 
be strong ; or in other words, a party favoring a confede- 
racy of States — a Democracy of the people, who " shall be 
strong," a mighty people — "and one of his princes" — 
another political party, which sprang up in or out of the 
other — and holding to a consolidated or monarchical gov- 
ernment. Then, by way of prolepsis, or anticipation, it is 
stated in the text, " he shall be strong above him ; and 
have dominion ; his dominion shall be a great dominion," 
as prototyped in the administration of President Adams 
from 1797 to 1800, but which finds its complete fulfillment 
at this day in the Eadical party now in power in this coun- 
try. For do not the lladicals of to-day hold to a consoli- 
dated government as they did then? Are they not at- 
tempting a one man's power now, as they did in the days of 
John Adams ? And are they not " strong above " the other 
party ? even over a large country, and doing according to 
their will ? 

Thus much for the mere statement and incifyiency of the 
contest, which very soon became sharp and lowering, so 
much so as to force from the pen of Jefferson, with the in- 
tensest solicitude, the following statement and interrogato- 
ries to Colonel Burr, of June 16, 1797. He says : " If a 
prospect could be once opened upon us of the penetration 
of truth into the Eastern States, * * * we might still 
hope for salvation, and that it would come as of old, from 
the East. But will that region ever awake to the true state 
of things ? Can the middle, southern and western States 
hold on till they awake ? These are painful and doubtful 
questions, and if you can give me a comfortable solution 
of them, it will relieve a mind devoted to the preservation 
of our Ptepublican government in the true form and spirit 
in which it was established, but almost oppressed with ap- 
prehensions that fraud will at length effect what force could 
not, and that what with currents and counter currents, we 



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shall, in the end, be driven back to the land from which we 
launched twenty years ago." Was this prophetic of these 
times ? 



Phase II. — Verse sixth. 

Abruptness in tlie verwe — Parties in hostile array — Attempt at a Union — 
Missouri Compromise — All fruitless — Though it is an important epoch 
in the history of the Government — History confirms the Prophecy — 
Draper — Benton. 

Verse 6: "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together : for 
the King's daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make 
an agreement : but she shall not retain the power of the arm ; neither shall lie 
stand, nor his arm : hut she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and 
he that Ijegat her, [or whom she brought forth] and he that strengthened her 
in these times." 

The mind of the attentive reader is somewhat astonished 
at the rather abrupt commencement of this verse, and for 
which we cannot acconnt unless it be for the fact of the 
singular freak or change in the bodies politic that was about 
to be introduced by the prophet. For in all the history of 
the government from its commencement down to the pres- 
ent there is nothing like it. Down to the war of 1812-15, 
the two parties already spoken of were in almost deadly 
array against each other, but now, " in the end of years," 
or about A. D. 1820, these two parties " shall join them- 
selves together," but as they are so antipodal in their po- 
litical creeds, they could not in sincerity — such an attempt 
at union was, or would be, as fruitless as the attempt to 
unite the iron and the clay in Nebuchadnezzar's image. 
Such was the attempt in the Missouri Compromise, when 
"the king's daughter," another body politic — "of the 
South," which was the conservative or compromise party, 
originating in the South, sought " to make an agreement," 
or rights, with the Northern party. But " she ," the com- 
promise party, " shall not retain the power of the arm ;" 
that is, she nor her posterity shall prosper or reign in the 
kingdom or nation. In other words, that party will be- 



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come extinct, "shall be given up," togetlier with those 
that brought or sustained it. Not even a Clay nor a Web- 
ster, with all their matchless, profound and inimitable elo- 
quence, nor all their able and worthy coadjutors, could sur- 
vive only for a season the mighty influences brought to 
bear upon the cause they espoused, and so ably defended. 

The contest at this psriod was of vast moment, and of 
the most vital importance, so much so, that it came well 
nigh rending the government. It shook the country from 
one end to the other, and at the time was the all-absorbing 
topic ; and forms an epoch in the government from which 
date events that have transpired of the most tragical and 
upheaving character. For to this act of the Federal legis- 
lation may be traced renewed and more hostile efforts 
against the institutions of the South, and Southern rights, 
resulting in the state of aflairs we now realize and endure. 

How appropriately does history record — undesignedly it 
may be — the fulfillment of prophecy, may be seen in the 
following extracts : " The Missouri question stands forth as 
a promirmit landmarh in the view of American history. It 
presents itself so suddenly, so ahruptly, as to excite surprise. 
When Louisiana was admitted into the Union in 1812, 
there was no objection on account of slavery ; when Mis- 
sissippi was admitted in 1817, the only reluctance to the 
measure was the size of her territory, and that was reme- 
died by the separation of what became the State of Ala- 
bama from her. Alabama in its turn was admitted without 
question, in 1819. In like manner formerly Vermont, Ken- 
tucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, had been received with- 
out any question as to their free or slave condition." — Dra- 
per's Civil War in America, p. 352. " The [Missouri] re- 
striction came from the North — the comproonise from the 
South. [Having been introduced before Congress by Hon. 
Mr. Barbour, of Virginia, and this, as before stated, is the 
king's daughter of the South.] The restriction raised the 
storm— the compromise allayed it. All this may be seen 
in the debates on the subject."— 5enfow's Abridgement, &c., 



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vol. vi., p. 333. Yes, allayed it for the time being, only to 
be revived and urged with the greater energy and determi-* 
nation by the anti-slavery and abolition paity, as we shall 
see in the Fourth Phase of the Contest. 



Phase III. — Seventh to ninth verses. 

Andrew Jackson — Great excitement — National Bank— Protective Tariffs — 

Niallification, 

Vcrac 7 : " But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his OBtate, 
which shall come with an army, and nhall enter into the fortress of the king 
of the North, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail" : 

Verse 8 : " And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their 
princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold ; and he shall 
continue more years than the king of the North." 

Verse 9 : "So the king of the aouth shall come into his Idngdom, and shall 
return into his own land." 

In this phase of the contest, we have tliree very impor- 
tant matters brought to our view ; and as they are all fa- 
milial to the present generation, it may be unnecessary to 
elaborate them. The only point essential to our purpose 
is to show the chain of connection in the great exciting 
causes of the contest, as being subjects of prophecy. 
These are, the national bank, protective tariffs, and nullifi- 
cation. 

If you will but consider these three things, you wil 
find they came in rapid succession, and are so intimately 
interwoven each with the other, that the excitement and 
agitation throughout the country was so rapidly increasing 
that it came well nigh resulting in civil war ; and which it 
would in all probability have done, had it not been for the 
unbending and determined will of him who was at the helm 
of State. But let us analyze the text. 

When it is said " out of a branch of her roots," it means 
that a hrancli from the same root from which she — that is, 
the king's daughter of the South — sprang, " shall one stand 
up in his estate," be confirmed in his office. Now we have 
already seen that this daughter of the king of the South 
was symbolic of the Missouri compromise measure, and 



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came from the Sontliern Democracy. In the text now un- 
der consideration, we have a persooi from the same root or 
origin with her presented to our view. This person was An- 
drew Jackson, of the Democratic school, elected to the 
Presidency in 1828, and re-elected in 1832. 

The National bank system had run through a long series 
of years, and was at first designed for the benefit of the 
whole country, but had now become monopolized for the 
special aggrandizement of a few, and made the basis for 
speculations upon a large scale. Hence, when the subject 
of its re-charter was before Congress at this period, it ex- 
cited the most stirring debates and finally passed both 
Houses of Congress, but when it came to the President for 
his signature, contrary to the highest aspirations and ex- 
pectations of its friends and advocates, he returned it with 
his veto. Then it was that the moneyed aristocracy of the 
North, with Webster and Clay leading in the van, sent up 
their loud bugle blasts of war rockets of the greatest dis- 
tress, and threatened in no measured terms to make Jack- 
son and the Democracy of the nation tremble — and every 
day in the week was devoted by politicians in telling of 
their distresses — memorials poured into Congress — and rev- 
olution was not only thought of, but seriously contemplated. 
But the direst vengeance the opposing party could inflict 
on him was a resolution of censure, offered and advocated 
by Hon. Henry Clay, March 33, 1831, which passed and 
was placed upon the journals of Congress ; but this was 
afterward expunged from the record by a resolution of Col. 
Thomas Benton, March 16, 1837. 

The Tariif, at its beginning in 1816, was a Southern mea- 
sure, and opposed by the North. But as the Southern la- 
bor system was different from that of the North, the tariff 
began to work adversely to the first expectations of the 
different parties, which caused each to change his position. 
Clay and Webster became its friends and advocates, while 
Calhoun changed his base upon the question, and became 
its most violent enemy and opposer. With the greatest 
talents in the nation arrayed for and against it, the excite- 



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ment rose to its highest pitch. In 1828 it became strongly 
sectional, and Jackson and Calhoun were elected to the 
Presidency and Vice Presidency of the nation, which was 
considered as a triumph of the South over the North ; of 
the slave over the free States, and as a repudiation of the 
poHcy of a protective tariff — and the re-election of Jack- 
son in 1832 was considered a reaffirmation of that repudia- 
tion. 

Now to these two systems — the National Bank and the 
Protective Tariff — do the seventh and eigUli, verses apply. 
By the election of Jackson to the Presidency by such an 
overivhelming majority of the popular vote, he may be said 
very appropriately to "come with an army" — with a great 
number, or vast multitudes of people ; " and shall enter 
into the fortress " — the place of security or defence (and 
such were the bank and tariff) "of the king of the North" 
■ — of the Northern party — " and shall deal," act or contend 
" against them, and shall prevail " — shall come out best in 
the contest. Did not Jackson do this ? 

And by his " carrying as captives into Egypt their gods, 
with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver 
and gold," we are to understand that the great men who 
advocated these measures were so overcome in the conflict 
that they may be said to be captives, so bound and fettered 
that they could not help themselves or partv ; and the car- 
rying away of the precious vessels of silver and gold, an- 
swers very appropriately to the removal of the deposits of 
the national bank. 

Now while these things were upon the tapis, a movement, 
called by some a " sedition," grew out of the aforesaid 
tariff in the State of South Carolina, to which the Presi- 
dent had to turn his utmost attention. All eyes were upon 
the movement, and scarcely anything but nnlUJication was 
thought or spoken of. So far had the matter progressed 
that the chivalric South Carolina through her legislature 
determined to resist the enforcement of the tariff act within 
her borders to the last extremity. Arrangements were 
being made by the Federal Government to enforce the act 



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and coerce the State into submission, when the President 
recommended Congress to remove all just causes for com- . 
plaint : upon which Mr. Claj, February 25, 1833, introduced 
(and which was passed) the compromise tariff act. There- 
upon South Carolina receded from her position and com- 
parative quiet was again restored. And it was for this 
*' the king of the South had to come into his kingdom and 
return into his own land." He being a Southern man, and 
of the Democratic school, which is naturally of itself 
Southern, you see how well, with the facts above stated, 
the prophecy agrees with history. All these things being 
so intimately blended together, very naturally and of ne- 
cessity come within the same phase of the contest. " Let 
him that readeth understand." 



Phase IV. — Tenth verse. 

The Federals being foiled hitherto in their efforts to obtain the govern- 
ment, plant themselves now upon the moral vvTong of Slavery — South 
loses by ignoring this central idea and resting the cause on the grounds 
of necessity and expediency — Hence arises Anti-Slavery and Abolition 
Societies — Assume form and notoriety, resulting in the Election of A. 
Lincoln, President, which resulted from the Missouri measure — Metho- 
dist E. Church— Petitions to Congress. 

Verse 10 : "But his Bons shaUbe stirred up, and ehall assemble amiiltitude 
of great forces : and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through : 
then shall he retui-n, and be stirred iip, even to his fortress." 

Having been thwarted in their efforts to obtain the reigns 
of government through a moneyed aristocracy growing out 
of the National Banking System and a Protective Tariff — 
nothing daunted — changing somewhat his base of action, 
he fell back upon the subject (Slavery) as involved in the 
Missouri compromise measure, and rested or planted his 
action on the moral ivrong of that institution. Here he 
gained an advantage over the South. This latter had de- 
fended the institution on the grounds of expediency and ne- 
essity, without taking the true scriptural grounds that the 



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negro was made by the Almighty to be subservient to the 
white man. Had the South not overlooked and given " the 
go bye " as much as it did to this great fundamental idea, 
and given less thought to that of necessity and expediency, 
it would have secured an advantage that never could have 
been overturned. But the North, seizing on this great cen- 
tral idea, which had been almost entirely ignored by the 
South, lost no time, but with renewed energy made capital 
of it to the great detriment of the South. 

So, accordingly, we have here now a resumption of the 
contest commenced in verse the sixth. There we found the 
Missouri compromise, occasioned and founded on the slave- 
ry and abolition question ; but now instead of quieting the 
country, and making the two parties friendly, it only gave 
the Northern party occasion to renew their efforts and ap- 
ply themselves with greater vehemence to obtain their pur- 
poses and get control of the government. Then " The in- 
troduction of the Missouri dispute banded the South to- 
gether ; [but] it agitated to their profoundest depths the 
population of the North. They accepted the projDosed 
Constitution of Missouri which prohibited the emancipa- 
tion of slaves and forbade the immigration of freedmen, 
as a cartel of defiance. As in the dissolving views depicted 
by a magic lantern on the wall, the Federalist party disap- 
peared, and out of the ruinous confusion its anti-slavery succes- 
sor began sloivly to take on form and emergey — Draper^s Civil 
War, p. 359. 

It was then anti-slavery and abolition societies were in- 
creased all over the North, and the subject agitated in 
every possible way to inflame and prejudice the minds of 
the people against this institution peculiar to the South. 
Through these societies the various religious denominations 
became so embittered against the South on account of 
anti-slavery sentiments that the entire North was carried 
away with the whirlwind of excitement — they were bitterly 
stirred up — so that churches which had been a unit, and 
fraternized with each other throughout the country, now 



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refused affiliation and divided under the pressure brought 
to bear upon them. 

The Methodist E. Church stands as an example of the 
power of this anti-slaverj and abolition movement. The 
most numerous and powerful of christian organizations in 
the land, this church exhibits to the world how far good 
people can be carried away under the tide of party feeling 
and outside pressure. So great was the feeling in this 
church upon this subject, that in 1844 it was rent asunder 
and one of her bishops virtually deposed, and a member 
of the Baltimore Annual Conference suspended from the 
ministry, because of their accidental connection with slave- 
ry, and which resulted in the division of the church and the 
organization of the Methodist E. Church, South, in 1846. 
And it may be safely stated that this church action was no 
insignificant cause that paved the way for the Secession of 
the Southern States from the Federal Union. For party 
spirit after this division of the church ran higher than ever 
before, both in Church and State — and impelled in its on- 
ward course by a blind infatuation, became more and more 
intolerant and exacting in its demands ; and becoming in- 
toxicated with the subject, plunged headlong into the de- 
termination to effect its purposes regardless of conse- 
quences. 

Does not every person know full well of the political 
warfare for years past in Congress, and throughout the en- 
tire length and breadth of the country upon the slavery 
question ? How " the sons," the people of the North, anti- 
Southrons were " stirred-up," instigated by inflaming pas- 
sions ; and how they " assembled a multitude a great 
forces," and did " certainly come, and overflow and passed 
through " the whole country ? And how they returned to 
their own land, with determined will, and stirred themselves 
up, " even to the fortress," the capitol of the Nation ; sur- 
feiting Congress with anti-slavery and abolition petitions 
and discussions, the latter attaining their acme in the Kan- 
sas and Nebraska struggle ; leaving no stone unturned in 
the moral, political or religious world. Time would fail to 



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tell of their doings in this respect. Suffice it to say, that 
moral, political and religious teachers, so-called, were all 
employed in furtherance of their designs, until they culmi- 
nated in the election of their party and sectional candidate, 
Abraham Lincoln, for the chief magistracy of the nation. 



Phase V. — Verses eleventh and twelfth. 

The late Civil or Secession War of 1861-1865. 

Verse 11 : "And the king of the Sonth shall be moved mth choler, and 
shall come forth and fight with liim, even with the king of the North : and he 
shall set forth a great multitude , but the multitude shall be given into his 
hand." 

Vei'se 12 : " And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shaU be 
lifted up ; and he shall cast down many ten thousands ; but he shah not be 
strengthened by it." 

Up to this period, though party feelings ran high, and 
were of the most bitter kind, yet there was no fighting — no 
blood shed. There were loars of words, criminations and 
recriminations, but no conflict of arms. But now the 
scene changes. " The King of the South," the Democracy 
as a people or body,- found its only true representatives, 
as in the early days of the government, south of Mason 
and Dixon's line — filled with true Virginia blood — " was 
moved with choler " — at the designs of the now successful 
Radical Abolition party, and " came forth and fought with 
him," for the defence of constitutional rights and liberty. 

The Prophet says first, that the king of the South shall 
come forth and fight with the king of the North ; secondly, 
that the king of the North " shall set forth a great multi- 
tude," a great army to fight against the king of the South ; 
thirdly, this great army of the king of the North " shall be 
given into the haod" of the king of the South ; fourthly, 
that when this occurred " the heart of the king of the South 
shall he lifted up, and that he shall cast down, or kill many 
ten thousands." But fifthly, though he shall cast down or 
kill so many thousands, he shall not be strengthened by it^; 
his successes at a conflict of arms will not profit him any- 
thing — will do him no good. These are the points in the 



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prophecy, uttered by the prophet ages in the past^ and 
were they not literally fulfilled in the case of the South, or 
in the late Secession War ? 

Let us look at it again in its application, and then say 
whether it was a fulfillment of this prophecy ? First, did 
not the South come and fight against the king of the North ? 
Was not the first gun fired at Fort Sumpter a signal to 
arms, to artns ? Secondly, did not the Northern or Radical 
party come against the South with a great multitude — a 
great army ? Were they not numbered by tens of thou- 
sands ? History and the facts in the case say so. Thirdly, 
was not this great multitude given into the hands of the 
king of the South ? Were not thousands upon thousands 
of the Northern army slain in battle ? And were not thou- 
sands upon thousands of them taken prisoners ? And were 
not the remainder put to flight ; yea, to a disgraceful stam- 
pede ? It was then thought by many that the war was 
over, such were the great successes of Southern prowess. 
History and the facts in the case attest the truth of these 
things. They are in accordance with the prophecy. 
Fourthly, as in the prophecy, so here in the fulfillment of 
the same, the heart of the king of the South shall he lifted 
■up. The joy of the Southern army and of the Southern 
people, from the highest to the lowest, men, women and 
children, was unbounded. Praises great and loud re- 
sounded from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. " The Bon- 
nie Blue Flag " was raised higher than Haman ; yea, ex- 
alted to the skies, and shouts of triumph and glory rent 
the air, and made to fear and quail the hearts of all our 
foes. Did not Daniel tell of these things ? But Fifthly, 
was not the South successful in nearly every battle, great 
and small, for about two years of the^war ? Are not hun- 
dreds of thousands of Northern men buried in Southern 
soil, killed in battle ? And yet, what did it all amount to ? 
Was the South any stronger by it ? Did it decide the 
questions at issue, and close the war ? The prophet says, 
" He shall not be strengthened by it." As the prophecy, 
so the fulfillment. So the history and facts in the case at- 



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test ; the South was not strengthened by it. Wlio can but 
staud in awe, and wonder at the precision of the prophetic 
pen ! None but Omniscience could foretell the stirring 
events of those awful days. 



Phase VI. — Verses thirteen to tiventy-seven. 

Reorganization and enlargement of the Northern Army — Overthrow of 
the Confederate States Government— Negro Emancipation — Deceitful 
actings with the Southern States — Hon. Thaddeus Stevens— A. Lin- 
coln — Heavy taxation — U. S. Grant — Comes in peaceably — A. Johnson 
reduced to a cypher — Loyal Leagues — Military rule — Carpet-Baggers — 
Scalawags, &c. 

Verse 13 : "For the king of the North shall return, and set forth a muUitude 
greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a 
great army aud with much riches." 

Verse 14 : " Aud in those times there shaU many stand ujd against the king of 
the South : also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish 
the vision ; but they shall fall." 

Verse 15 : "So the kiug of the North shall come, and cast up a mount, and 
take the most fenced cities : and the arms of the South shall not withstand, 
neither his chosen people, neither shaU there be any strength to withstand." 

Verso 16 : "But he that comoth against him shall do according to his will, 
and none shall staud before him : And he shaU staud in the glorious laud, 
which by his hand shall be consumed." 

Verso 17 : "He shall also sot his face to enter with the strength of his whole 
kingdom, and upright ones with him : thus shaU he do ; aud he shall give him 
the daughter of women, corrupting her : but she shall not stand on his side, 
neither be for him." 

Verse 18 : " After this shaU he tiurn his face unto the isles, and shall take 
many : but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him 
to cease ; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him." 

Verse 19 : " Then ho shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land : but 
he shall stumble and fall, and not be found." 

Verse 20 : "Then shall stand iip in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory 
of the kingdom : but withui few days he shaU be destroyed, neither in anger, 
nor in battle." 

Verse 21 : "And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall 
not give the honor of the kingdom : but he shah come in peaceably, and obtain 
the kingdom by liatterios." 

Verse 22 : "And with the arms of a flood sliall they be overflown from before 
him, and shall bo broken ; yea, also the princ-o of the covenaut." 

Verse 23 : "i\rid after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully : 
foir he shall come up, and shall become stroug with a small people." 

Verso 24 : " He sliall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the prov- 
ince ; aud he shall do that which his fathers have not done, uor his fatnor's 
farther, lie shall scatter amoug them the prey, and spoil, and riches : yea, aud 
he shall forecast his devices agaiust the strougholds, even for a time." 

Verso 25 : "And he shaU stu- up his power and his courage agaiust the king 
of the South with a great army ; aud the kiug of the South shall be stirred up 
to battle with a very great and" mighty army ; but he shaU not staud : for they 
ehaU forecast devices against him." 

Verse 26 : "Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shah destroy him, 
and liis army shall overflow : and mauy shall fall down slain." 

Verse 27 : "Aud both these kiug's hearts shall be to do mischief, aud they 



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shall speak lies at ono table ; b..t it aliall uot prosper ; for yet the end shall be 
at the time appointed." 

Tlie scene here changes again, and we now have the suc- 
cesses and conduct of the king of the North, or Eadical 
party, pointed out and portrayed. After he had been rout- 
ed and put to a very dishonorable stampede, he returns to 
the conflict with an army greater than the former, and with 
much or great riches. Exactly as are justified by the facts 
in the case. The Northern army was reorganized and re- 
inforced by hundreds of thousands, and bounties, lands 
and moneys without stint were offered and held out to en- 
gage the services of ojSieers and soldiers. Verse 11 : "And 
in those days many shall stand up against the king of the 
South ;" that is, the party in power having now increased 
their army so much, shall be in greed activity, and conquer- 
ing as they go forward in their march. Just as was attest- 
ed by the facts in the case. Great activity was displayed 
by the Northern army, and very few victories were ever 
gained by Southern arms after this great multiplication of 
the army of the North. " Also the robbers of thy people 
shall exalt themselves to estabhsh the vision ;" that is, "the 
robbers," or as the margin reads, " the children of robbers" 
are those from among the South, who deserted the South- 
ern army, and those loJio were of the South, that turned 
themselves over to the enemy for gain, for office and for pre- 
ferment ; and who may be known in this day as tories, or as 
noio denominated, scalaivags. But their doom is here pro- 
nounced or foretold by the prophet, when he says " they 
shall fall," they may for a time succeed — they will run their 
race, but will come to a disgraceful end. 

Verse 15 : We have next a series of acts of this North- 
ern army set forth. As for example : he " shall come and 
cast up a mount," as he did at Vicksburg, Petersburg, 
Eichmond, and other places : " and take the most fenced 
cities," or cities of munitions, as he did at New Orleans, 
Vicksburg, Memphis, Selma, Mobile, Chattanooga, Macon, 
Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, Eichmond, &c,, and as a 
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natural sequence, " the arms of the South shall not with- 
stand ;" the soldiers of the South, howsoever brave, being 
too few to fight with the mighty army brought against 
them, will be overcome. " Neither his chosen people," the 
generals and officers of the South, from the pagacious and 
immortal Lee, down to the humblest corporal, shall have 
no strength of army to withstand the forces brought against 
them. Does not every person know these things to be 
so ? Then as the prophecy, so the facts point to a fulfill- 
ment of the same. 

Verse 16 : " But he that cometh against him shall do 
according to his will, and none shall stand before him." 
The events as they occurred justify these prophetic decla- 
rations. The Radical Republican party as represented by 
the army, did, as he came against the South, whatsoever 
he would. Freed the negroes ; stole property ; plundered 
houses ; sacked cities ; murdered men and women ; de- 
floured females ; in a word, there was nothing in the cata- 
logue of crimes and misdemeanors against the acknowledged 
laws of civilization and religion of which he was not a per- 
petrator — a gnilhf parfy. And what else could be expected, 
having the military power, than that "none shall be able to 
stand before him ?" The Southern army had to give back 
and finally yield to his greatly superior numbers. Another 
step or two. " And he shall stand in the glorious land 
which by his hand shall be consumed." Maintaining his 
position in the "glorious land," the South, Ijy an active mil- 
itary force — the land shall be consumed ; reduced to a state 
of poverty, oppression, degradation and cruelty hitherto 
unknown or unheard of in the annals of the world. No 
longer prosperity reigns within her borders. No bleating 
folds or herds, and almost literally, no waiving fields of 
corn, or fleecy, snowy fields of cotton adorn her lands ; be- 
cause " by his hand " " the glorious land " " shall be or is 
consumed," laid waste and made desolate. Is not this the 
case in all this once fair but now dreary Southern country ? 

Verse 17 : " Besides all these things — not content with 



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what he has done abeacly — with devastations and deprada- 
tions he has committed, he " sets his face to enter with the 
strength of his whole kingdom." Face, in scripture, when 
apphed to man, often signifies anger, justice-, severity. To 
enter signifies to take possession. To set the face, implies 
determination. In the present case, it means the king of 
the North determined to possess the land of the South with 
the greatest severity, and to rule the people with an iron 
rod, using for its accomplishment the combined " strength 
of his whole kingdom." And further, to aid him in this 
matter, and to facilitate his ambitious and nefarious de- 
signs, he would bring his " upright ones with him ;" that is, 
he would establish, as the margin reads, equal conditions. 
And still further, to aid him in the nefarious work, he would 
" give the daughter of women corrupting her ; but she shall 
not stand on his side, neither be for him." The daughter 
of ivomeii, is symbolical of States, or body politic ; and 
these States he attempts to corrupt ; to turn aside from her 
virtue, honor and integrity : but she will not or shall not 
stand, that is, be firm and active on his side ; yea, " neither 
be for him," notwithstanding all his efforts at corruption. 
Does it require a philosopher's ken to see its application 
and fulfillment on this continent ? Has not the Radical 
Republican party now in power determined to possess this 
Southern country with the strength of his whole kingdom ? 
Does not the Congress, so-called, of the United States re- 
present the strength of the party ? of the Idngdom ? of 
the nation ? And is not severity toward the South written 
and sealed upon every act of theirs in regard to this mat- 
ter ? And is not this severity seen and read of all men, as 
being of the most determined character ? " He that hath 
ears to hear let him hear." And how apropos the proph- 
ecy to that other act of establishing equal conditions ; mak- 
ing the negro the equal of the white man. Commencing 
with Mr. Lincoln's enunciation of his emancipation procla- 
mation and consummated by the enactment of the Civil 
rights and other bills, thus attempting professedly to make 



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the stupid, lazy, ignorant native of another region — an ex- 
otic properly — the equal of Caucasian blood, while tlie true 
secret lies in using him only as a party tool in the acquisi- 
tion and retention of power and the treasury. And to fur- 
ther his purposes throngh this ignorant, pliant tool, he en- 
deavors to corrupt, to bribe, to cheat into his plans the 
States which so nobly contended against such odds to main- 
tain their rights. With great suavity he approached at 
first the South ; do this and all will be right. But each 
succeeding act has only drawn the chain the tighter, until 
lie has well nigh succeeded in corrupting her. But she has 
at last waked up to a sense of her danger, and the South 
as such, is not on his side, neither for him. For the carpet- 
bag and scalawag governments, so-called, now acting and 
playing their parts south of Mason's and Dixon's line, are 
not the real governments of those States, never was, never 
will be. They are all unconstitutional, therefore nail and 
void — and such before long they will be so declared. The 
South is not, cannot be in favor of such pretended legisla- 
tion, without compromitting her high native integrity, and 
that will be, never ! Eeconstruction, therefore, must be 
sought, and can only be obtained upon a more honorable 
basis than that now proposed. 

Verses 18 and 19 : "After this," or during the reign of 
this party, " shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall 
take many." Mes or islands with the Hebrews did not 
mean the same as with us : that is, lands surrounded with 
water, but simply countries at a distance, or such as had a 
line of sea cost; or the region which is by the sea- 
side. Thus Tyre, PS it was anciently, is called the isle, in 
Isaiah XXIII, 2, 6, though seated only near the sea ; and 
the Tyriaus are called " the inhabitants of the isle." The 
Hebrews looked upon the isles as places of merchandize, 
to which men went to traflSc and fetch riches ; hence it 
comes that an island in their notion, is akin to mart-town, 
a rich, trading, populous city, a place where riches are 
brought, which will be found clear, from Ezekiel XXVII. 



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So that idands became symbolically to signify riches, reve- 
nues, waj^s of trading and the like. Hence in Isaiah, twen- 
ty-third chapter, third verse, it is said of Tyre, " The har- 
vest of the river is her revenue ; and she is a mart of na- 
tions." 

If, now, we accept this symbolical meaning of the term 
" isles," how applicable it will be to the case now under 
consideration. Take the map and let the eye glance upon 
the sea-coast clasping in its embrace the glorious sunny 
South, east and west, commencing with Virginia and taking 
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, in the survey, and you 
have a country empliatically by the sea-side ; the like of which 
is no where else to be seen upon this globe — a coast and 
country embracing the most important mart-towns, and 
capable of more revenues, riches and trade than any other 
country in the world. All this country with its revenues, 
riches, &c., the dominant party has taken, usurped and ap- 
propriated for its own aggrandizement and power. We 
here reiterate, think 3'ou that such a country as this pass- 
ing in panoramic review before the Great All-Seeing, des- 
tined to produce results of the most momentous character, 
not only at home, but abroad, would fail to inspire the 
prophetic pen in regard to its political convulsions ? 

"But a prince," a chief; principal man of the party; a 
councellor ; a congrsssman, if you please, " for his own 
behalf," ox for hiiii "shall cause the reproach," or his re- 
proach, to cease ; "without his own reproach he shall cause 
it to turn upon him ; " that is, to turn upon himself. The 
reproach here spoken of embraces every thing ; every act 
of usurpation ; every act of depredation ; every act of op- 
pression attempted upon, and offered the South, whether 
they had the sanction of law or right or not. But here are 
FOUR things affirmed of this prince, this counsellor or leader 
of the Radical Bepublican party. First, that he shall 
cause this reproacli offered by him to cease. Secondly, that 
he shall cause the reproach to turn upon himself. Thirdly, 



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that he shall make an attempt to enforce the same reproach 
upon the people of his own land. And Fourthly, he shall 
stumble and fall, and not be found ; that is, he shall lose 
caste even among his own people, in the council of the na- 
tion, and die. 

Now can we find a clear fulfillment of this part of the 
prophecy in the history of any man ; any counsellor ; any 
congressman of the Radical party ? I pause for a reply. 
MethiDks, ye that are posted in the politics of the past, 
have his name already upon your tongue's end, and ready 
to exclaim : " The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens." Has he not 
been the head and front, the leader, the counsellor, the 
'prince of that party for years in the past, more than any 
any other man ? Has he not been engaged all that time, 
and has it not been his highest ambition, prominent in all 
his life, to abolish slavery and enforce universal suffrage, 
at any and all hazards, and to bring the South in utter sub- 
jection to the will of his party .'' Has he not led his party 
from one step to another, and caused it, nolens volens, to com- 
mit deeds of blackest and foulest reproach upon the most 
chivalric people beneath the sun ? But according to the 
ancient maxims, " Truth is mighty and will prevail," and 
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again ;" and as is fre- 
quently the case in the Providence of God, the Almighty 
causes him who would inflict a punishment to become in 
his hands the instrument of deliverance therefrom. So 
here, in the case before us ; he makes this man to cause 
the reproach which he offered the South to " cease." For 
whilst he would endeavor to make the world believe the 
South to blame, he so acts in the drama as to relieve it of 
all blame and all reproach, and thereby brings — uninten- 
tionally, it is true — the reproach he offered to others upon 
himself, by declaring the legislation which had resulted 
therefrom, through his influence, as unconstitutional, and 
therefore null and void. Oh ! what a reproach he offered 
others in endeavoring to fasten upon them a status in the 
nation, and laws he knew were unconstitutional, and how 



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signally a retributive justice overtakes him., But, in the 
meantime, he turns his face to the fort of is own land, 
with a desire to fasten upon his own people-fche people of 
the North — the same universal suffrage : BiJ just at this 
time, " he stumbled and fell ;" that is, he losjcaste and in- 
fluence at home, and especially in the halls of Congress, 
where he has so long had almost universal swi,y, and where 
his ipse dixit amounted almost to an " it i done," and 
finally, he is not found — he dies, he passes amy " to that 
bourne from whence no traveler ever retuirfe," and into 
the presence of that God, who has written encircling his 
brow in living characters of fire, "Justice is tjfe habitation 
of my throne." Was not this prophecy fulfilled ? 

Verse 20 : " Then," not as an immediate successor of the 
foregoing personage, for the prophets frequentb intermix 
the events of which they speak, disregarding the exact order 
of their occurrence- but sometime during the reign of the 
dominant party, " shall stand up in his estate — or olice — a 
raiser of taxes in the glory of his kingdom ;" or one shall 
be in such a prominent office in the authority of the su- 
preme administration of the government, that he shall 
cause an exactor of taxes to pass over the land. Is not 
this fulfilled in the enormous taxations put upon the peo- 
ple by Congress ? Were ever a people since the beginning 
of the world so down-trodden and burdened with revenue 
duties as are the people upon this continent ? Can you 
even think of anything that we eat, wear, smell or u^e in 
any way, but has an exactor of taxes after you for it? 
Look at your tables — your tea, cofi'ee, sugar, meats, dainties ; 
look at your wardrobes ; look at ladies' toilet tables ; yea, 
visit even the sick-chamber, and even there the hand of the 
exactor is stretched out, requiring the duty on the medicine 
necessary to save life, even before it can be administered 
or taken. Go where you will, and when you may, the stamp 
act, worse a thousand fold than that imposed by Great 
Britain upon the infant colonies of this continent, meets 
you at every turn, at every step. The whole country groans 



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beneath tlie)Oi:^(l<.rons load imposed upon it. No wonder 
it comes witin the purview of prophetic ken. 

But it is stated of this man, this "raiser of taxes," he 
through whm these enormous revenues or duties have 
been imposd upon the people, " within few days," in a 
short time, le " shall be destroyed," dispossessed of his 
office ; or hi office taken away from him ; and this shall 
be done " nither in anger," not in a passion or fit of dis- 
pleasure, " lor in battle " ; not in time of war, but in times 
of comparaiVe peace. How well all this may, and does 
apply to thf /ate Hon. Abraham Lincoln, late President of 
the United(States, who found it necessary to meet the enor- 
mous andoefarious expenses of the government to cause 
these unbard of taxes to be imposed upon the people, we 
may weDleave to every intelligent and thinking mind. For 
does heviot sit well for the picture ? and was he not dispos- 
sessed <if his office, "neither in anger, nor in battle?" 

Ve/se^. 21 and 22 : But we now have another character 
app^a^rg -upon the tapis more formidable in some respects, 
Rud urider whom greater anxieties are created than any who 
preceded him ; and we ask you to analyze with us the 
prophecy, and see if wo can locate him with any degree of 
preoision and certainty. And whilst we are endeavoring to 
do this, it must be constantly borne in mind, that the proph- 
ets are wont to speak of parties in a contest through rep- 
resentative men ;" and when thus introduced, the latter are 
dropped and the former are then taken up and their acts 
described as if performed by the person whom they first 
introduced ; and as we have already stated, they sometimes 
go back of events already related and take up occurrences 
not as yet mentioned. So in the case now before us. Here 
is a person spoken of that antedates the " raiser of taxes," 
whose character is given, and stands to a considerable ex- 
tent a representative person. But to the text. 

It is here stated that " in his estate," or as the margin 
reads, "in his place," "shall stand up a vile person," not a 
prince or civil ruler of some kind, but " a vile person ;" a 



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man from some other class of society, or government, and 
that he was to be a vile person. A certain commentator 
describes " a vile person" thus : One that is base and sor- 
did ; one that would steal out into the city and herd him- 
self with infamous company, in disguise, if necessary — 
making himself a companion of the commonest sort, and 
strangers. A man of odd notions and whims, acting at times 
almost as if he were a madman ; resorting to the common 
shops, prattling with the workmen ; frequenting the com- 
mon taverns, eating and drinking with the meanest fellows, 
singing debauched songs, &c., &c. 

" But to him they shall not give the honor," the reverence, 
dignity or rule " of the kingdom," of the nation ; " but he 
shall come in peaceably," or in time of peace ; " and obtain 
the kingdom by flatteries," by inducing the dominant party 
to believe that he was on their side, and that through him 
they could the more effectually prosecute and consummate 
their projects and purposes. And from one act of flattery 
to another, he succeeded in ingratiating himself into the 
favors of the ruling power that the highest honors of the 
nation were conferred upon him, even powers, prerogatives 
and privileges exceeding those of the chief executive him- 
self. 

Does any one hesitate for a moment in appropriating this 
character to the "person" spoken of in the text? It may 
be in the estimai'"on of some, most too elaborately and 
strongly dr'uwn, but in the main we are fully satisfied of its 
principal ieatures as entirely applicable to Gen. Ulysses S. 
Grant } and we are therefore fully satisfied of this part of 
the ]3? ^phecy finding its fuliillment in him. His general 
charai ter as before the people identify him as the " per- 
son " ^ooken of. The history of his acquisition of power 
in the i^ation shows that the people, nor Congress intended 
to bestol 7 upon him the supreme executive power of the 
government, but that he has " come in peaceably," and ob- 
tained the kingdom by the " flatteries" of those in power ; 
but it may be, in attempting to shun Scylla upon the one 



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hand, the party will find itself foundering upon Charybdis 
on the other. For while Gen. Grant was not the first choice 
of this Black Republican party for the highest office in the 
gift of the American people, to lead their party on to con- 
quest and spoil, but was only taken up and supported by 
them as the most available man, whilst he " played mum," 
and remained non-committal on the great party issues of 
the hour ; he had lavished upon him without stint, to se- 
cure his military influence, the greatest flatteries man had 
ever received upon this continent. No stratagem or spoil 
was left untouched to secure his election to power and lea- 
dership. Hence, " with the arms of a flood shall they be 
overflown before him, and shall be broken," that is, in plain 
English, and as the fulfillment justifies, he tvas not fairly 
elected to power by the voice of the people. For the military 
was invoked to this end, and it was only by the division of 
the country, especially the ten Southern States, into military 
districts that he succeeded in his election and elevation ; 
and it was only by this military power, and this alone, the 
force of the other party was broken ; and by this alone his 
competitors were " overflown from before him." And yet 
again, it will be seen that during this struggle, and about 
the time of the rise of this "vile person," "the prince of 
the covenant" was also broken, deprived of power that 
legitimately belonged to him. The Covenant is the Con- 
stitution of the United States ; tJie prince of this Covenant 
or Constitution is none other than Andrew Johnson, then 
President of the United States. It is well known that he 
has plead for the Constitution, but that he has been shorn 
of his strength by the acts of the Congress, so-called, and 
may be put down as a mere cypher in the government. 
And it is well known too, that, this has been done in the 
work of elevating Gen. Grant to power ; both as regards a 
military commander and the Presidency. 

Verse 23 : The prophet now makes an easy transition 
back to the party of which he had been speaking at the 
close of the seventeenth verse, and proceeds with his nar- 



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ration of events, enlarging also upon some he had already 
intimated. It must be remembered that the dominant 
party now again appears before us, but in a more unenvia- 
ble light. Hence, " after the league made with him, he 
shall. work deceitfully." "Acting upon the avowed maxim 
that princes, rulers or law-makers ought not to be bound 
by their word any longer than it is to their interest to do 
so." " The league " or covenant here spoken of may be 
understood in two ways : First, it may refer to the propo- 
sition made to the South, which the latter accepted in good 
faith, to change the Constitution so as to insert the " Four- 
teenth Amendment." It is well known, in order to eftect 
this, promises fair were made that if it were accepted and 
adopted, the Southern States would be again recognized as 
equals in the Union. The South complied, and thus a 
league, or covenant was found. But no sooner was this ac- 
cepted by the South than the North (or Congress rather) 
began to work deceitfuUy ; to discover its double face and 
unfair dealing. Offering the right hand of fellowship, 
whilst a dagger was drawn by the left to inflict a fatal 
blow. In fact, the entire system of legislation by Con- 
gress from the time of the surrender in 1865, has been lit- 
tle less than a continuous tissue of tantalization of the 
South and acts of deceit. It said one thing, and meant 
another. It offered plan after plan of reconciliation with 
the greatest apparent fairness, whilst it was only a work of 
entire and known deceit. Or secondly, this enunciation 
may refer to the formation of what is known as " The Loyal 
Leaguers." The avowed object of the formation and or- 
ganization of these Leagues was to maintain in the South 
what is known as Negro Suffrage ; whilst the underlying 
and secret motive was to so manage this ignorant class of 
creatures as to perpetuate their own aggrandizement and 
power in office for the spoils and riches. Little do they 
care for the negro, only as he may be made subservient to 
their beck and bidding at election times ; and to commit 
deeds of outlawry upon unoffending citizens under pre- 



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tence of enforcing the laws. At these times, you may fre- 
quently see the office-seeker embracing, arming and asso- 
ciating on the most intimate terms with these poor, deluded 
creatures upon the streets, whispering ever and anon in 
their ears, they are as good as white people, while from 
their own family circles they would spurn and chastise 
them. O ! consistency, thou art a jewel ; O ! deceit, how 
treacherous thou art ! ! 

In either one or both of these may the text be understood. 
" For he shall come up," rise to a position of power and 
influence which he had not previously possessed ; " and 
shall become strong with a small people." By his deceit- 
ful workings and intreagues, from having been a small or 
but few, or a weak people or party, at one time, he shall 
continue to increase in numbers until he shall become a 
strong, powerful, and mighty people, or party. Do these 
facts not fulfill the prophecy ? 

Verse 24 : But again — " He shall enter peaceably even 
upon the fattest places of the province," of the country. 
[Is the Southern States anything but a province ?] Or as 
the margin reads, " He shall enter into the peaceable and 
fat places of the province." Taken in either sense, it finds 
its fulfillment now. For he did enter " peaceably " after 
the surrender, upon the " fattest " places of this great con- 
tinent, even the Southern, glorious land ; or otherwise, he 
did enter into ilie peaceable and fat places of the country. 
For here, in this country war had ceased, the clangor of 
arms was heard no more throughout the length and breadth 
of the land, and in peace, in time of peace, he entered into 
the fattest places ; and it was such only that he cared for ; 
for these he sought ; these he found, and in peace, without 
any resistance, possessed himself thereof. 

Having now possessd himself, thus peaceably, not only 
of the richest part of the country, but also the fattest or 
best paying ofiices in the land, he becomes more arrogant, 
self-important and dictatorial ; so much so, that he far 
transcends the acts of his father's fathers, and does those 



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things that would have made the fathers to blush, yea and 
scorn to do. For " he shall scatter among them the prey 
and spoil, and riches ;" money, prosperity and riches have 
been scattered by themselves, amongst their own party, al- 
most without stmt, let or hindrance, until the country is 
now entirely bankrupt. Do you need proof just here of 
this matter ? Look at the Eeports of the Treasury De- 
partment, yea, of every department of the government ; 
for none are exempt, until the subject of Repudiation as 
now agitated in the land, is no longer a chimera of the 
brain, but has become a subject of vital and practical im- 
port. The millions and multiplied millions of treasures 
scattered broadcast amongst themselves at the expense of 
the people, needs no great adept in prophetical interpreta- 
tion to see its fulfillment in the case before us. For that 
party verily " scatters among themselves the prey, and spoil, 
and riches." Again, to carry out his evil intentions with- 
out let or hindrance, "he shall forecast devices against the 
strong holds, even for a time," he fixes a variety of plans 
to make the opposite party powerless. This he has done, 
by taking all the important mart-towns, or sea-coast towns 
and cities ; appropriated all the executive, judicial and le- 
gislative departments of the Federal, if there be now any 
Federal, and State, if there be now any such thing as 
State, governments, to subserve his own purposes. These 
departments are the strongholds of any country. Have they 
not cast their devices, their plans, so as to secure these 
strongholds to themselves, and thereby rendered the country 
powerless, save to subserve their own purposes ? What is 
the President, the Chief Executive of the Federal govern- 
ment now, but a mere pigmy ; a mere cypher ? His hands 
are tied, he can do nothing. What is the Judiciary of the 
government also, but a mere cypher ? They dare not ren- 
der a judgment against the unconstitutionality of the acts 
of the party now in power. So also, all the Governors, 
Supreme Judges, Circuit and City Court Judges, Legisla- 
tors, Sheriffs, Clerks, &c., &c., constituting the "strong- 



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holds " of any country or State, have all, all been so wired 
into and held in office b}'^ the devices or plans, which they 
have forecast, or laid out by stratagem and spoil. 

Yerse 25 : Emboldened by what he has already perform- 
ed, and perceiving an acquisition to his own strength, the 
king of the North " stirs up his power and courage against 
the king of the South with a great army ; and the king of 
the South shall be stirred to battle with a very great and 
mighty army ; but he shall not stand : for they shall fore- 
cast devices against him." Not that there were fightings 
and blood shed upon the battle field, but that there was a 
severe contest. For haftle does not always necessarily im- 
ply that men are slain and blood spilt : and men may be 
stirred up to battle ; and great and mighty armies may be 
stirred up to battle, and yet no actual fighting occur, no 
one killed. So it appears in the case now before us. Es- 
pecially, if we take into the account prophetical imagery. 
The verse refers to the great contest between the two par- 
ties : the Radical Republican or Congressional party, and 
the Democratic party North and South, after the formation 
of their respective Chicago and New York platforms, pre- 
paratory to the late Presidential campaign. It is well 
known that the contest was great and severe. The two 
parties were arrayed almost in hostile attitude. The two 
armies were great and mighty, and the contest close and 
uncertain for a time, and had it not been for the devices 
which the Northern party forecast against the Southern 
Democratic party, both in the North and in the South, 
which were one, the victory or triumph would have been 
upon the other side. But the devices, the plans adopted by 
the Northern party, prevented a fair opportunity for the peo- 
ple to be heard in the matter, and thus the king of the 
South was not able to stand, to compete with him. 

Yerse 26 : And this was efi'ected in a great measure by 
the corruption of ministers of State. For " they that feed 
of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army 
shall overflow." Eating or breaking together, has ever 



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been, in all ages and in all countries, considered as a token 
of friendship. Those, then, that eat of the portion of his 
meat, are such as were among the avowed friends of a free 
government ; those that were amongst the people of a free 
government, men of character and standing, position and 
caste, hut ivho betrayed the cause, Judas-like, for the spoils ; 
or, like Esau, sold their birth-right for a mess of pottage, 
and went over to the enemy, and gave their influence, or what 
they had left, to the aid of our enemies, and thereby swell- 
ing the army of the North and causing it to overflow the 
whole country ; and thereby also, being the means of many 
to fall doion slain ; to be deprived of equal rights ; disfran- 
chised, and placing them in a status as though they were 
not ; a state equal to being slain. We can scarcely refrain 
from writing down here, some of their names to descend 
to posterity, but history no doubt will be faithful in trans- 
mitting their names, as it has been in handing down to all 
coming generations the name of Benedict Arnold. But a 
Judas came to an untimely end ; an Esau's birthright was 
sold for a mess of pottage, sought to be regained with re- 
pentant tears ; so, in their turn, these traitors, renegades and 
scallawags, though they may have triumphed for a time, and 
assisted in the victories of our enemies, will desire before 
long to throw down at the feet of injured innocence the 
price they have received for their traitorous conduct, and 
weep with bitter lamentations and tears to regain their 
former birthright to Southern chivalry and honor. But 
alas ! like that traitor and profane person, it will be too 
late ; they will have forever received the execrations of 
mankind, and be overtaken with the righteous judgments 
of an All-mighty Sovereign. 

Verse 27 : The prophet now makes an abrupt, yet quite 
a pointed declaration of the motives and destiny of these 
two parties, when he says, " both these kings' hearts shall 
be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table ; 
but it shall not prosper ; for yet the end shall be at the 
time appointed." A clear insight is here given to the 



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hearts, the motives of these two parties. It is not for the 
general weal of the community or nation ; not so much for 
the love they have for the country's good, but it is to do mis- 
chief; that is, to promote their own party interests, just as 
all parties have hitherto done. " The Lord trieth the reins 
and searcheth the hearts of the children of men," so by 
the prophet, he here declares the intents and secret motives 
of the hearts of these two parties, and declares that as an 
evidence of it, they speak lies at one table ; for out of the 
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. In all these 
attempts to amalgamate, coalesce or imiie the country, they 
speak lies one to the other ; saying one thing, while at 
heart they mean quite another, because of rnischief lurking 
in the secret recesses of their hearts. " But it shall not 
prosper ;" neither party shall uUimately succeed. Their mis- 
chief and lying words will cause the downfall of both. 
" For the end " of such conduct " shall be at the time ap- 
pointed." Success may be for a time, but it will end at 
the time appointed. God never can sanction the evil doings 
of the children of men, in individuals nor in nations. 
There is a limit set to the acts and doings of this party ; 
thus far shalt thou come, but no farther. His proud waves 
shall be stayed at the time appointed, but succeed he will, 
until that time arrives. 



Phase VII. — Verses twenty-eight to thirty-nine. 

Doings of the Radical Party contintied — Assumes control of the Execu- 
tive and Judicial Departments, of the Government— State' and Fede- 
ral — Bondholders — President Johnson's Message — Destruction of the 
Federal Constitution — Negro Equality — Chief Justice Taney — Miscege- 
nation — Abomination of Desolation — Oppression of the South — be- 
comes Inlidel and Atheistic — Chief Justice Taney — Divides the South 
into five military districts — our view thus presented, makes the proph- 
ecy a unit, and therefore reasonable — An objection answered. 

Ver8e28: Then shall he return into hia land with great riches ; and his 
heart shall be af,'aiuat the holy uoveuant; and he shall do exploits, and re- 
tm'u to his own laud. 



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Verse 29 : At the time appoiuted he shall return, and come toward the 
South : Init it sliall uot be as tlie former, or as the latter. 

Verse 30: For the ships of Ghittiai shall come against him : therefore he 
shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation agamstthe holy covenant : 
so shall ho do ; he shall even return, and have intelKgence with them that 
forsake the holy covenant. 

Verse 31 : And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the 
Sanctuary of Strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall 
place the abominjition th;it maketh desolate. 

Verse 32 : And such as do wickedlv against the covenant shall he coiTupt 
by flatteries ; but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and 
do exploits. 

Ver.se 33 : And they that understand among the people shall instruct many : 
yet they shall faU by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many 
days. 

Verse 34 : Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help : 
but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 

Verse 35 : And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and 
to purge, and to make them white even to the time of the end : because it is 
yet for a time appointed. 

Verse 36 : And the king shall do according to his will ; and he shall exalt 
himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous 
things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be ac- 
complished : for that that is determined shall be done. 

Verse 37 : Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of 
women, nor regard any god/ for he shall magnify himself above all. 

A'"er8e 38 : But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces : and a god 
whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with 
precious stones, and pleasant things. 

Verse 39 : Tlnis r-bali he do in the most strongholds with a strange god, 
whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory : and he shall cause them 
to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gam. 

Yerse 28 : In this verse the prophet resumes the thread 
of his prophecy in regard to the doings of the king of the 
North, which he had left off at the close of the twenty- 
sixth verse. " Then shall he return into his own land with 
great riches ; and his heart shall be against the holy cove- 
nant ; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land." 
In his lust after power, he had gained by his deceitful and 
inisddevous wovkings, "great riches" out of the government 
and people ; his heart was set against the holy covenant, the 
Federal Constitution ; and he shall do exploits, such as the 
taking charge of every branch of government, and by their 
legislation deter the judicial and executive officers from in- 
terfering with any of their plans. For without such ex- 
ploits as these, he never could succeed in any of his pur- 
poses or designs ; but which having accomplished, he re- 
turns to his own land elated at his triumphs, and with 
thoughts of further aggressiveness. 

Verse 29 : For it will now be perceived that he makes 
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another attack unprovoked upon the South. For " at the 
time appoiutecl," when he shall conceive his own strength 
sufficient and indomitable, " he shall return, and come to- 
ward the South," not in a flighting capacity, but by legisla- 
tive acts ; but it shall not be as the former, or as the lat- 
ter." In the former, or first contest, he had to deal with 
the chivalry and prowess of Southern valor upon the bat- 
tle-field ; in the latter, or last mentioned contest, he dealt 
deceitfully with a conquered foe, but now he meets an op- 
ponent from within, or among his own ranks or household. 

Verse 30 : " For the ships of Chittim shall come against 
him." Merchant ships symbolically mean the merchandize 
and ^reaswres which they bring, and simply signify ^ro^Y. 
Islands, as have been shown, are standing and y^'xecZ places 
of commerce and riches : but " ships " are only transient, 
moveable instruments to procure and bring them ; and there- 
fore ships denote moveable riches and wealth. And by 
these ships being described as coming from " Chittim," and 
as the word "Chittim" signifies Wasters, Gold, we think it 
plainly points out, or is symbolical of riches or wealth that 
has gold for its object, and that which is destined ioioaste, or 
bring the government to poverty, if pushed to its legiti- 
mate results and intentions. 

So now at this juncture, at the time appointed, a moneyed 
power, influence or aristocracy, which exactly answers the 
symbols used by the prophet, rises up amongst themselves, 
and comes against this Northern party in a manner alto- 
gether unlike anything that had as yet transpired, which 
finds its fulfillment in the great contest at the North in ref- 
erence to the bondholding question ; in which, gold is the 
bone of contention, and which is ivasteful to the nation. 
" Therefore," on account of which, " he shall be grieved," 
both mortified, humbled and disappointed : " and return, 
and have indignation against the holy covenant." He will 
have wrath and anger against the time-honored and con- 
secrated constitution of the Federal compact as framed by 
the fathers of our country, because that instrument was 



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opposed so pointedly to the higli-harided measures sought 
to be imposed upon the mass of the people, for the special 
benefit of the few. 

President Andrew Johnson, in his message to Congress 
under date of December 3, 1867, points out some of their 
acts of "indignation" against the constitution, in the fol- 
lowing unmistakeable and telling language. He says, 
" the constitution commands that a Republican form of 
government shall be guaranteed to all the States ; that no 
person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property with- 
out due process of law, arrested without a judicial warrant, 
or punished without a fair trial before an impartial jury ; 
that the privilege of habeas covpus shall not be denied in 
time of peace ; and that no bill of attainder shall be passed 
even against a single individual. Yet the system of mea- 
sures established by these acts of Congress does totallj'^ 
subvert and destroy the form as well as the substance of 
republican government in ten States to which they appl}-. 
It binds them hand and foot in absolute slavery ; subjects 
them to a strange and hostile power, more unlimited and 
more likely to be abused than any other now known among 
civilized men. It tramples down all those rights in which 
the essence of liberty consists, and which a free govern- 
ment is always most careful to protect. It denies the ha- 
beas corpus and the trial by jury. Personal freedom, prop- 
erty and life, if assailed by the passion, the prejudice, or 
the rapacity oi the ruler, have no securit}^ whatever. It 
has the effect of a bill of attainder, or bills of pains and 
penalties, not upon a few individuals, bat upon whole 
masses, including the millions who inhabit the subject 
States, and even their unborn children." 

But notwithstanding all this, " so shall he do ;" wrong it 
may be, and wa-ong it is ; oppressive it may be, and oppres- 
sive it is ; abominable it may be, and such it is, in the sight 
of God and man ; he will enter the sacred arcana of liberty 
at all hazards and adopt any measures necessary, even the 
most obnoxious, to abrogate the high behests and privi- 



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leges guaranteed by the Federal compact ; and to this* "he 
shall even return and have intelligence with them that for- 
sake the holy covenant." See how contemptuously the 
prophet speaks of such conduct. They even return, come 
back, or to those that forsook, the Constitution ; to those 
who apostatized, Judas-like, for the loaves and fishes ; and 
had intelligence with tliem ; had an understanding with them, 
and through and by them devised ways and means to effect 
their malicious ends and purposes. Is not this seen and 
read of all men, in the history of every scalaiuag, every 
Southern Judas, throughout the land ? And by the way> 
the most contemptible and hateful character that God per- 
mits to breathe the breath of life. " Am I therefore be- 
come your enemy, because I tell you the truth ?" And " if 
I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death ? 
and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?" 

Verse 31 : But further : to facilitate his ends and pur- 
poses, he invokes the ridUtary power of the government. 
" And arms," that is, the military, " shall stand," be actively 
engaged " on his part," in his behalf. Has not this been 
verified to an iota ? Need we detain you to itemize on a 
point like this ? one with which every man, woman and 
child, is as familiar as with household words ? A subject, 
too, that attracts the eye whithersoever it turns, in almost 
every village and hamlet, town and city, in the land ; 
wounding and causing to bleed at every throb, the heart of 
every true patiiot. No, no. We need not detain you on 
such a heart-rending subject, such as the prophet, centu- 
ries in the past, looking down the vista of ages, saw as 
clear as the noon-day sun ; even a vast, mighty military 
omnipotent, standing active upon the necks of oppressed 
heroism and virtue. 

"And they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength." 
As the tabernacle or temple among the Jews was the " Sanc- 
tuary of Strength," the holy or consecrated place from 
which went forth the laws of God for their government, 
so in the case before us, reference is had to the legislative 



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halls of the Eederal capitol. [We do not design any irrev- 
erence in this allusion or application.] Have they not 
basely polluted this " Sanctuary of Strength ? " The place 
once honored and revered, has become a pandemonium in 
the estimation of the countiy. The place from which once 
emanated wise and wholesome laws, founded upon consti- 
tutional principles, has now become the theatre of unjust, 
degrading and unprincipled enactments, because, forsooth, 
potver and might are possessed by the ruling class ; enough 
to cause the angels to weep and mourn, and the blush of 
shame, if possible, to come o'er the spirits of our country's 
departed worth. Let any one look but for a moment at the 
acts and doings of Congress for the last few years up to 
this time, and say, " Have they not, in deed and in truth, 
polluted this Sanctuary of Strength?" But again, they 
"shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place 
the abomination that maketh desolate." That is, they 
shall cause to cease the time-honored custom of the daily 
or oft communings and intercourse of representatives from 
the various States of the Union, by refusing representation 
in Congress of those States called " Rebel ; " as well as 
some whom they have expelled from other States, because 
they were not of that class calculated to subserve their evil 
designs. Thus they have taken it awa}^, and in its stead 
have " placed," set up or established, " the abomination of 
desolation "■ — -or "of the desolator " or the abomination 
that astonishetli. That is, they have established the doc- 
trine of negro suffrage — of negro representatives ; in which 
they have endeavored to make the negro equal to a white 
man. Not that they have any peculi;ir love or affection 
for the negro, but only as it is to their interest as a party 
to secure his vote, to help them to power and profit. Do 
not the facts in the case bear out the prophecy ? For we 
ask, is there any greater abomination on the earth than this 
attempt of the Radical Republican party to make a black 
skin, fiat nose, woolly head, thick lips, thick skull, ignorant, 
degraded, barbarous African, equal to the Caucasian blood ? 



u 

And can any one point to any fact that has so desolated any 
land as this same effort at universal suffrage ? Not all the 
war from the firing of the first gun at Fort Sumpter, to the 
surrender of the immortal and renowned General Robert 
E. Lee, had so desolating an effect upon this once fair land 
of ours, as this effort at negro equality. The entire coun- 
try, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, has been made 
almost a barren waste. Thousands upon thousands of acres 
of fertile lands that yielded good returns to the husbandman's 
toil, now lie waste. The cattle upon a thousand hills are 
no more to be seen ; large stocks of cattle have dwindled 
down to naught, and scarcely a vestige of former greatness 
and plenty now remains. Well may it be styled " the deso- 
Iato7\" or equally well may it be said it is "/Ae abomination 
that astonishethy For the whole civilized world stands and 
stares in astonishment at this thing, asking : Hoio can it, or 
loherefore can it be ? Is any good to the common country 
to result therefrom ? or is it for any vital or heartfelt inter- 
est for these creatures that such' an act is done ? Well may 
it indeed astonish mankiinl. [As this point is mentioned in 
the twelfth chapter, we will just drop a word here by way 
of suggestion to the thoughtful, which is that this abomina- 
tion as we have interpreted it, has about in effect run its 
race ; its days are numbered, and a change is now to be ef- 
fected. The negro has voted for National Executive 
officers for the last time. Chapter twelfth, 11th verse, says : 
"From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, 
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there 
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." Now 
if you will refer back to our remarks upon the first two 
points in this text, and if we are correct therein, and then 
make your data from the time of the surrender of General 
Joseph E. Johnston some time in the last week of April, 
1865, and add or count therefrom to about the first week 
of November, 1868, about the time of the Presidential elec- 
tion, you will have twelve hundred and ninety days. From 
that time the decline of the party may be reckoned, and 



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the end of these things determined. Under the present 
administration will be the downfall of the party now in 
power, and with its downfall the present policy of the gov- 
ernment ceases.] 

To show that we are not alone in classing this doctrine 
of negro equality of the Eadical party as an " abomination 
that maketh desolate," or that astonisheth the whole world? 
permit us to quote from the " opinion of the court," as de- 
livered by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case, in 
1856. He says, " they (the negroes) had for more than a 
century before been regarded as beings of an inferior or- 
der, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, 
either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior, 
that they had no rights which the white man was bound to 
respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be 
reduced to slavery for his b&nefit. He was bought and sold 
and treated as an ordinary article of merchandize and 
traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opin- 
ion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized por- 
tion of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in 
morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of dis- 
puting, or supposed to be open to dispute ; and men in 
every grade and position in society daily and habitually 
acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters 
of public concern, without doubting for a moment the cor- 
rectness of their opinion." And to illustrate this view of 
the subject, the Chief Justice cites the laws of Maryland 
and Massachusetts of 1717 and 1705, and says : "They 
show that a perpetual and impassable barrier Avas intended 
to be erected between the white race and the one which 
they had reduced to slavery, and governed as subjects with 
absolute and despotic power, and which they tJien looked 
upon as far beloiv them in the scale of created beings, that in- 
termarriages between white persons and negroes or mulat- 
toes ivere regarded as unnatural and immoral, and punished 
as crimes, not only in the parties, but in the person who 
joined them in marriage. And no distinction in this re- 



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spect was made between the free negro or mulatto and the 
slave, but ilds stigma, of the deepest degradation, ivas fixed 
upon the whole race. In the face, then, of the opinion of 
the civilized world, the early legislation on the continent, 
and the declaration of independence, to attempt to legis- 
late, to enforce the negro into an equal status with the 
white man, may be very properly called an " abomination," 
and a desolaior and a degradation to the white man. But 
to return to the doings of this party while in power. 

Verse 32 : " Such as do wickedly against the covenant 
shall he corrupt by flatteries." Those that turn against, 
and to overthrow and to destroy the Constitution of the 
country as it was, are those who do wickedly against it, and 
these characters the ruling power cxmses to disser)d)le, to act 
the hypocrite ; pretend one thing, whilst they are entirely 
diiferent. " But the people that do know their God shall 
be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand 
among the people shall instruct many : yet they shall fall 
by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil 
many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen 
with a little help : but many shall cleave to them with flat- 
teries. And some of them of understanding shall fall, to 
try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to 
the time of the end : because it is yet for a time appoint- 
ed."— Verses 32 to 35. 

Here we have the character of the opposite party set 
forth, together with the persecuting hand of the tyrant in 
power. The prophecy describes these points so clearly, 
and the events of the last few years so fully illustrate them 
as facts of history, that no man can doubt of their being a 
fulfillment of the prophecy. The man who maintains his 
integrity in these trying times is represented as one who 
knows his God ; has correct principles and dares maintain 
them. One that is strong and does exyploits, is he who, when 
others yield to the tyrant's demands and surrender their 
consciences to his impositions, bravely keeps his ground, 
resists the temptations, and makes the tyrant himself 



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ashamed of his attempt upon him. Such may well be 
termed doing exploits ; for to choose suffering rather than 
sin, is indeed a great exploit. So having learned them- 
selves, and having understanding of the arts, wiles and 
stratagems of the enemy, they are calculated to instruct 
the people. Yet persecutions shall attend them. Many 
have been slain by ilie sword — murdered — (shall we 
mention by way of illustration the cases of Mrs. Surratt, 
and Wirtz of Fort Anderson memory ? ) many others ruin- 
ed by the flame attached to their houses ; many in virtual 
captivity by congressional disfranchisement ; others exiled 
from their country and homes, and property of all kinds 
despoiled and taken by a ruthless foe, insomuch tha,t 
scarcely a vestige of the country's former greatness and 
splendor is to be recognized bv the most sagacious of its 
inhabitants ; and scarcely " one stone is left upon another," 
of the once fair temple of our Liberty. 

But it is declared that " when they shall fall, they shall 
be holpen with a little help." During these great trying 
and devastating times — times trying to men's souls, " a lit- 
tle help," a ray of light, a flickering hope of a change for 
the better, shall be afforded them by the election of Gen. 
Grant to the office of the chief magistracy of the Nation. 
And are not all eyes now turned to him as the only hope 
of the country ? The one party is all expectant with hope, 
whilst the other has its many fears and misgivings that he 
will not aid, abet, and further their depredating schemes upon 
the people and government. And if General Grant could 
but realize his situation just at this juncture, he has it 
within his pov/er to immortalize himself by leading the 
whole country from a worse bondage than the Israelites in 
Egypt, to a land of peace, quiet and plenty. But in order 
to this he will have to rise above the unconstitutional 
legislation of Congress and assert his prerogatives as guar- 
anteed him as President in the original Constitution of the 
country. But to return. As it has ever been, so in this 
case. In the palmy days of the Confederacy, every man 



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was a strong Southern raan. But when the last flickering 
rays of its ouce bright sun shed its departing glory upon 
the political horizon, and Federal blue bestud the Southern 
sky, "Confederate gra}^" was quickly laid aside by many, 
and thousands who once loudly proclaimed the song of the 
"Bonnie Blue Fhig," now became all of a sudden the 
strongest Union men. So now, there is a little hope, a small 
ray of Hght that a different dispensation is about to be in- 
augurated ; many of these same strong ones are siding and 
courting fav^or with that which seemeth to be just ahead ; 
which is apprehended will be inaugurated by the present 
incumbent of the presidential chair. Tliey are with the 
party supposed to be in power, and where they will find the 
greatest self-aggrandizement. The Lord pity such misera- 
ble temporizers. 

Now in this transition state, or when it is neither light 
nor darkness, some of those men of under standivg already 
spoken of, shall fall by these flatteries, as many eminent men, 
such as governors, judges, law3^ers, ministers, and civilians 
of all classes have done ; have made shipwreck of their 
faith in the ultimate success of pure democratic principles 
as opposed to the party now in power. But all this, if 
properly viewed, will tend " to purge and to make white," 
or pure and more steadfast those who will be faithful to 
the great principles which have been, and are now contend- 
ed for as just and right. And such will be the case until 
" the time of the end ;" until the time comes for the change 
to take place, " because it is yet for a time appointed." A 
change will come ; affairs of the present aspect cannot last ; 
but will and must last, until the race of the present party 
in power is run, which is to a time appointed in the great 
economy of God's providence, and when that time arrives 
all the powers in hell and earth combined cannot prevent 
the downfall of the infuriated foe. For when the fury of 
God Almighty shall come up in his face, and when his 
jealousy and the fire of his wrath shall be kindled, " Surely 
in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land ; " 



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and he "will call for a sword against him throughout his 
mountains," when " every man's sword shall be against his 
brother," and God "will rain upon him, and upon his 
bands, and upon tlie mamj people that are with him, an over- 
flowing rain, and great hail-stones, fire, and brimstone ;" 
and will magnify himself, and sanctify himself, and be 
known in the eyes of many nations, that he is the Lord." 
Ezekiel XXXVill. 

But until that time " the king of the North shall do ac- 
cording to his will ; " nothing can stop him in his onward 
course. Congress will make its oton ivill the law of the 
land. In illustration of this point, we call your careful at- 
tention, once more, to an extract from President Johnson's 
message of December 3, 1867, in which he fully character- 
izes the Kadical party, in reference to this identical point. 
He says : " To dictate what alterations shall be made in 
the Constitutions of the several States ; to control the elec- 
tions in the several States — legislators and State officers, 
members of Congress and electors of President and Yice 
President, by arbitrarily declaring who shall vote, and who 
shall be excluded from that privilege ; to dissolve State 
Legislatures or prevent them from assembling ; to dismiss 
judges and other civil functionaries of the State, and ap- 
point others without regard to State law ; to organize and 
operate all the political machinery of the States, to regu- 
late the whole administration of their domestic and local 
affairs according to the mere will of strange and irresp)onsihle 
agents, sent among them for that purpose — these are pow- 
ers not granted to the Federal government or to any one of its 
branches." Thus Congress makes its own will the supreme 
law of the land. 

But again : " He shall exalt himself, and magnify him- 
self above every god," above every other department of 
the government, judicial and executive. Por the term god 
symbolically means princes, magistrates and judges. Above 
these, Congress exalts and magnifies itself, and makes them 
subsidiary to its own purposes and ends. But not content 



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with subsidizing the rulers, magistrates and chief men of 
the nation to advance their diaboHcal intentions and thirst 
after power and gain, th'ey go a step forward and impeach 
the Almighty Creator himself, and " speak marvellous 
things against the God of gods." This they have done. 
When they could find no guarantee in God's Word for their 
conduct in oppressing a wide extent of the country's do- 
main ; and when they could find no warrantee for creating 
for the negro a new status in society and in the govern- 
ment, they have contemptuously ignored the divinity of the 
Bible, and the existence of God himself, and one conse- 
quence thereof is, infidelity is rife and rampant at the 
North. And thus are they fast filling up the cup of their 
iniquity by rushing headlong in the course of all defiance 
of God and man, of heaven and earth, and strange as it 
may appear, j^et nevertheless 'tis true, tbey " shall prosper 
till the indignation be accomplished : for that that is deter- 
mined shall be done." For having the full power of the 
government at their control, they will prosper, and naught 
can stay their hand until the accomplishment of their 
greatest acts of tyranny and oppression. For God has de- 
termined certain thiogs to be done, and until that time they 
shall prosper, when he (God) will make even the wrath of 
man to praise him. 
^- Verse 37 : Onward still to depths of deeper degredation, 
•V and to acts of greater prof anation, he ventures and plunges 
until he drinketh iniquity, as the ox driuketh the water. 
For it is written : " Neither shall he regard the God of his 
^-7 fathers ;" the fathers of our country, in and during the war 
of the revolution of 1776, looked to and confided in tlie God 
of heaven for redress from British tyranny and oppression, 
and after the war was over, they always regarded the re- 
's^, y suits of that war as a special providence of heaven ; but 

this God of our fathers the present party now ignores, and 
no longer regards ; no longer esteems ; no longer holds in 
respect, affection or reverence ; no longer considers Him as 
the author of their being, supporter or dtfender, individ- 



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ually or collectively as a nation. Again : he shall not re- 
gard " the desire of tvomen ; " not content with his attacks 
upon the stronger portion of the community, he invades 
the rights and privileges of the tender and helpless sex. 
Here let our tread be light and wary, and thoughts suggest 
themselves, we dare not utter. A word to the wise is suffi- 
cient. A certain commentator has said : " His not regard- 
ing the desire of ivomen, may bespeak either his barbarous 
cruelty ; he shall spare no age or sex, no, not the tenderest 
ones ; or, his unnatural lusts, or, in general, of every thing 
which men of honor have a concern for ; or, it might be ac- 
complished IN SOMETHING WE MEET NOT WITH IN HISTOEY." 

Upon this latter point let us direct your attention for a 
moment. In the beginning God made man, male and fe- 
male, equal in status and rights. After the transgression, 
God, among other things, said to the woman, " thy desire 
shall he to thy husba7id" Here the internal, private and 
innate instincts of the woman was to he to her husband ; 
her equal, hone of her hone, and flesh of her flesh. This is 
the regular and natural course of God's providence and in- 
tentions. But here comes up a party in power that essays 
to contravene this order of the Almighty, by attempting to 
introduce a neiv or unheard of custom amongst the people, 
by disregarding this desire of loomen, and fastening upon 
us miscegenation with a people — so-called — almost dissimi- 
lar in every respect. We are not to be understood as here 
endorsing the doctrine of "Ariel," that the negro has no 
soul. Nay, we are not prepared for that. But we are in 
earnest when we ask, where did he come from ? Was he a 
separate creation from man, at the beginning ? Or did he 
spring from either of the sons of Noah ? We are well 
aware the orthodox doctrine is, that he sprang from Ham. 
But of this, where is the proof ? The onus prohandi of this 
position lies with those who maintain it. Will they give 
it ? If they attempt it, will they be so kind as to proVe by 
history, by the Bible, or in any other way, that the inhabi- 
tants of Western or Middle Africa are the regular and le- 



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gitimate projsemy of Ham ? And while they are figuring 
out that problem, we give this axiom in morals, science and 
religion, that "like begets like," to reconcile with their 
theory ; and answer the question fairly and squarely. 
How, according to this axiom, which we think, will not be 
doubted as to its truth, liow, the woolly head, black skin, 
thick lip, flat nose and thick skull African can be produced 
from Caucasian blood ? To say it is climatic, the veriest 
tyro in science would laugh at you ; to say it is the effect 
of the curse upon Ham, the tyro or novice in divinity would 
ask you the chapter and verse of its record ; for no curse 
was put upon Ham. And to say that he sprang from any 
one of Noah's three sons, would be to place the descend- 
ants of all his sons in the unenviable position of hav- 
ing all or some of their children being born Back, with a 
woolly head, thick lips, flat nose, <fec., &c. For if the black 
race sprang from Ham, it is as possible and as probable 
that Shem and Japheth would sooner or later produce the 
same kind. But to say it was the effect of the curse upon 
Canaan, you would have to show that God then turned the 
white man into a negro. If so, then he is a miracle. And 
if he is the result of a miracle upon the part of God, then 
you must show lolien, where, and for what purpose the mir- 
acle was wrought. For God never wrought a miracle with- 
out letting it be known, and for what purpose it was done. 
What, then, is the negro? If we answer, we know not ; 
we only assert our ignorance in the premises, and our dif- 
fering theorists have gained nothing. Only this, we are 
well satisfied, the negro is not the equal, never was, never can 
be, of the white man ; and the attempt to miscegenate the 
two races or peoples, is a point-blank disregard of the d,e- 
sire of women, and is " something we meet not with in his- 
tory ;" and to all intents and purposes is a direct fulfill- 
ment of prophecy. Besides all this, God's curse is, and 
ever has been, upon the mixing of these two peoples, as is 
seen in the issue therefrom, being .sickly, puny, weak and 
short-lived. 



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But lie goes another step forward. Neither shall he "re- 
gard any god : for he shall magnify himself above all." 
He shall not esteem or have any respect in any of his acts 
for any officer of the land, but shall set himself up above 
all ; just as Congress has done in making every one bow to 
its dictum at all hazards ; curtailing or enlarging the pow- 
ers of other departments to make them subservient to its 
interests : as in regard to the executive and judicial de- 
partments ; State or county officers of nearly every grade, 
asserting and maintaining at the point of the bayonet, that 
the will of Congress is the supreme law of the land. 

Verse 38 : He continues in his onward, downward course 
adopted as expressed in the thirty-sixth verse, but which 
now manifests itself in this verse in downright atheism and 
infidelity. For " in his estate shall he honor the god of 
forces." He revaj-ences and manifests for the military, the 
highest veneration, in words and actions ; and by that 
power enforces all its acts of legislation, however uncon- 
stitutional, upon the people. " And a god whom his fath- 
ers knew not," even this same military power, " shall he 
honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and 
pleasant things." He shall lavish upon them the revenues 
of the government without stint. Was ever a country so 
depressed with debt on account of military power or forces ? 
Go where you will, you find this god of forces, and it must 
be supported. It must have its pay ; its gold and silver, 
even if the country is to become impoverished or bankrupt 
thereby. It is now so hopelessly bankrupt from the sup- 
port required for this " god of forces," that it would re- 
quire centuries upon centuries to liquidate the debt, that 
Ichabod, the glory has departed, is already indellibly writ- 
ten upon our once fair and renowned escutcheon. 

Verse 39 : " Thus shall he do in the most strongholds ;" 
in places of power and legislation " with a strange god," 
with a party holding the doctrine of negro equality, which 
is strange or unknown to our fathers and the Constitution. 
For as Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case says : 



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" The words * people of the United States ' and ' citizens ' 
are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing, and that 
negroes were not intended to be inchided under the word 
* citizens ' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none 
of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides 
for and secures to citizens of the United States." " It is 
too clear," he says again, " for dispute, that the enslaved 
African race were not intended to be included, and formed 
no part of the people who framed and adopted this decla- 
ration ; for if the language, as understood in that day, 
would embrace them, the conduct of the distinguished men 
who framed the Declaration of Independence would have 
been utterly and flagrantly inconsistent with the principles 
they asserted ; and instead of the sympathy of mankind, 
to which they so confidently appealed, they would have de- 
served and received universal rebuke «Hid reprobation." 
Thus, it will appear plainly, this negro equality question in 
politics and society, is a strange god. Notwithstanding the 
party " shall acknowledge " it ; avow in a legal form, by 
legislation, to give it validity ; and having given it the 
sanction of a legal form, he then shall ''increase with 
glory ;" he shall become more violent, and swell with pride 
and arrogance, " and he shall cause them," this military 
power, " to rule over many, and shall divide the land for 
gain." This he has done in the division of the Southern 
States into five mihtary districts, for the purpose of en- 
larging their own power, and securing their own candidate 
for the Presidency. This was their object ; it was for gain. 
The man whom they nominated upon the Chicago platform 
was elected — this much they have gained — but whether it 
will result ultimately to their gain or loss, is now the all- 
absorbing question. For it seems they are unM'illing to 
trust him, inasmuch as he is fettered and bound as was his 
predecessor. But gain was the grand end in view — and in 
so far as the entire Southern country is concerned, they 
have it by this act completely under their control. But 
experience and observation prove that the purposes and 



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designs of men are often, thwarted, even by the simplesi 
tide m affairs, or by the merest miss-step or act of the 
party itself. " Wherefore let him that tJmilcdli he standeth, 
take heed lest he fall" 

Thus far, we have followed the prophecy ; and inquiry 
into past and present events suggests the fulfillment thereof, 
as much so, we think as they do in their application to the 
Persian and Grecian Monarchies. And without affectation 
or vanity, we think the prophecy more applicable to the 
contests upon this continent, than to those of the Eastern 
Continent. For the simple reason, that the method of ap- 
plication we have adopted makes the prophecy a continuous 
unit from the //M verse, where the contention arises be- 
tween the kings of the North and of the South, down to 
the close of the forty-fifth verse, giving the final result of 
the contention in the successful overthrow of the kme of 
the North. ^ 

While this method is a ueit, the other method usually 
adopted and followed by writers upon prophecy, and com- 
mentators generally, applies the different phases to events 
of such a mixed and variable character, that the inquirer 
is frequently led into such difficulties, out of which he can- 
not easily extricate himself. For instance. Doctor Adam 
Clarke, following Bishop Newton and others, says : "From 
the beginning of the chapter to the end of verse thirty, all 
IS very clear and plain, relative to the Grecian, Syrian iind 
Egyptian histories ; from the thirty-first verse to the end, 
the mode of interpretation is not so satisfactory in its ap- 
phcation to the times since Christ." Hence, we find him 
applying verse thirty-six to Antiochus Epiphanus ; the 
thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth to the Greek and Latin 
Churches. And then from the fortieth verse and onward 
he finds a contest between the Saracens or Mahommedan 
powers and the Greek Emperor Heraclius. 

Now, while we do not pretend to gainsay the opinions of 

these eminent writers, and while we admit they may be 

right, and which we may very consistently do, from our 

stand-point in reference to the dual or two-fold application 

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of prophecy, yet we think a method of interpretation that 
makes the prophecy more of a unit, the more excellent 
way. Because the contention is between the king of the 
South and the king of the North all the way through the 
chapter, commencing with the fifth verse, stating the rise 
and fall of each successively, until we come to the ultimate 
destiny in the conflict of the king of the North, as stated 
in the forty-fifth and last verse of the chapter. To such a 
reasonable view as this, we think every unprejudiced mind 
will give assent. 

We may as well remark here, that it is no objection to 
our theory of application of this Prophecy, to say that " all 
prophecies afqwrtaining to Natlonfi have had their fulfill- 
ment anterior to, or about the time of Christ." For this 
is an assumption without proof. If all the prophecies in 
relation to nations have had their fulfillment, then the ful- 
fillment can be ascertained. History will show the facts in 
the case. If history does not afi"ord the facts, then are the 
prophecies not fulfilled. For we are not merely to presume 
but confidently assert, as believers in the character and na- 
ture of God as revealed in his Word, that he would always 
so superintend historical facts as fulfilling his prophecies, 
so that history should not be hid under a bushel, but pre- 
served and presented in such light, that he yrho readeth 
may run and understand. 

It would be a very lame answer to an infidel to tell him, 
that for the want of historical data, you could not furnish 
evidence of the fulfillment of prophecy. He might very 
justly tell you, under such circumstances, the prophecy that 
could not be identified in its fulfillment was of no use ; and 
that your God was very careless, to say the least, of his 
Word, as not to be able to preserve its truth even amidst 
the darkness of ages. Has not God power over the history 
of kingdoms, nations and empires ? Did he not preserve 
the histories of nations anterior to Christ, so as to show 
his prophetic declarations true, and prove his Word divine ? 
Now apply these thoughts to the prophecy before us, and 
now under consideration. Have writers agreed upon its 



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entire fulfillment ? Examine them and yon will find a halt- 
ing and limping upon a portion of it, at least the latter 
part. A part by them is applied to the Grecian and Per- 
sian monarchies, while the latter is applied to another and 
a different power. Yet both, according to their theory, are 
typified by " the king of the North." Would it not have 
been better to have waited for the developments of time, 
so as to have found a nation whose history would agree 
more exactly and appropriately with the symbols of the 
prophecy, in which a unity of agreement and application 
could be found, such as we have and will find in the his- 
tory of these United States ? Why some men should de- 
sire to place the limit of national prophecies to the times 
of Christ, is a question we shall not undertake to decide ; 
but we should and would earnestly ask all such persons to 
show us tl}e history of any nation of the earth, that more 
exactly fulfills the predictions of the prophet in this chap- 
ter than do the United States. 

Again, there is a fact not to be overlooked nor forgotten, 
yet it is one very httle thought of, that there is a people, 
once a mighty pnd powerful nation, scattered over the 
broad area of the earth's surface, enduring the punish- 
ments of God's wrath on account of their disobedience, 
whom he is watching with a jealous care, keeping them a 
separate and distinct people from all other people, and 
whom He has promised to bring again to their own land, 
" after that the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." This 
people he will bring back and reorganize in a national ca- 
pacity. But in order to do this, he will have to revolution- 
ize the various governments of the earth. This will be, in all 
probability, brought about by the wicked designs of the 
children of men. Just as the salvation of Israel was ef- 
fected by the wicked designs of Joseph's brethren, when 
they sold him into Egypt. The result was told to the 
brothers by Joseph, after his father's death, when he said 
to them : " But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but 
God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, 
to save much people alive." 



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Just so now ; men will attempt to change governments 
after tlieir own heart's lusts, but God designs to bring about 
the word of his prophecy relative to the establishment of 
his peculiar people in the land he had promised, and re- 
store the government of the world to its original organiza- 
tion. For the Lord saith, " I will bring them out from the 
people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring 
them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains 
of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of 
the country, I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon 
the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be ; there 
shall thej'' lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they 
feed upon the mountains of Israel." For " I will bring 
again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall 
build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall 
plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof ; they shall 
also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will 
plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be 
pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith 
the Lord thy God." And "like as I have brought all this 
great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all 
the good that I have promised them ; " even if the whole 
political governments of the world have to be revolution- 
ized in order to effect it. 



Phase VIII. — Verses forty to forty-five. 

Final conflict between the South and the North — The North comes 
against the South with great poM'er — Overruns the country — Three 
States escape out of his hands— Negroes at his steps — Troubled by 
tidings out of the East and North — England — France — Spain — Become 
furious — Removes his seat of government — Minnesota— St. Louis — 
Meets his downfall. 

Veree 40 : A)id at tlie time of the end shall the kinp of the South push at 
him : and the king of the North sliall come agaiust him like a whirlwind, with 
chariots, and with horsemtm. and with many ships ; and he shall enter into 
the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 

Verse 41 : He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries 
shall be overthrown : but these shall escape out of his hands, even Edom, 
and Moab, and the chief of the children of Amnion . 

Verse 42 : He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries : and the 
land of Egypt shall not escape. 



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Veree 43 : But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, 
and over all the precious things of Egypt ; and the Libyans and the Ethio- 
pians shall be at his steps. 

Verse 44 : But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble 
him : therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to 
make away many. 

Verse 45 : And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the 
seas in the glorious holy mountain ; yet he shall come to his end and none 
shall help him. 

Up to this period, we have given what we think to be a 
fulfillment of the prophecy. But now, from the fortieth to 
the forty-ffth verse inclusive, we are not so certain, but are 
inclined to the opinion that we are now entering upon the 
last act of the grand drama that closes the conflict between 
the contending parties. Therefore, it is with reluctance 
that we venture an opinion. But as we have followed the 
contest with some precision and a unity appears in the suc- 
cession of events, and as you will expect at our hands an 
opinion upon this last conflict, or in reference to the future 
movements now coming, and may be already upon the 
tapis, we shall give our opinion, it being as we think in per- 
fect consonance with what has been said, and you can take 
it, as you will the foregoing, for what it is worth. Or it 
may be that a part has been already fulfilled, while a part 
is now in course of fulfillment. We will give you both 
views, and you can choose between them, or reject both as 
you may deem best. But we here advertise you, that if 
there has been any fulfillment of this phase of the contest, 
it has been only in part ; for it is quite evident that the 
events spoken of in the forty-fourth and forty-fifth verses 
are yet in the future. Now to the text. 

Verse 40 : " At the time of the end," when the last con- 
flict is to transpire at the " time appointed," and when 
*' that that is determined shall be done," as spoken of in 
the tMrty-fifth and thirty-sixth verses, " shall the king of 
the South," the Democratic Eepublican party — "push," 
make an effort against " him," the king of the North, or 
Radical Republican party ; " and the king of the North 
shall come against him like a whirlwind." " Winds " are 
symbolical of wars and commotions. " Whirlwinds " are 
symbolic of raging commotions and madness of the peo- 



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pie ;" " witli chariots," armies and governmental protection 
and guardianship by the necessary officers ; " and with 
horsemen," by swift conquest and dominion ; " and with 
many ships," that is, with much or great riches and wealth ; 
" and he shall enter into the countries," and take posses- 
sion of them ; " and shall overflow and pass over," in full 
triumph, having everything his own way, and crushing be- 
neath his iron heel everything that offers resistence to his 
march. If this has been fulfilled, it refers, in our opinion, . 
according to these symbols, to the late Presidential contest, 
when the Democratic party made such strenuous efforts 
against the dominant party, whilst the latter evidently 
brought to bear in the contest, with the greatest energy 
and swiftness, armies and governmental guardianships, 
[and was not the Freedman's Bureau one of these 
guardianships ?] officers, conquest, dominion, riches and 
wealth. But if it remains yet to be fulfilled, then are we 
upon the eve of one of the greatest and most terrible rev- 
olutions in the annals of time, and to which may well be 
ascribed the awful description as given by our Lord in the 
tiventy -fourth chapter of Matthew ; and that given by the 
prophet Ezekiel in the tliirty-eigMli and thirty -ninth chapters 
of his prophecies. To all of which we ask you to refer 
and apply at your leisure. 

Yerse 41 : " He shall enter also into the glorious land, 
and many countries shall be overthrown." Just as has 
been done by Congress in entering into the Southern States 
by their arbitrary and unconstitutional measures, by which 
they have disintegrated so many States from the Union, and 
hereby overthroum them in their governmental and sovereign 
capacity. " But these shall escape out of his hands, even 
Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Am- 
mon." That is, there were three States to escape out of 
his hands : States that would not lend their power and in- 
fluence and strength to his aid. If so, then Texas, Missis- 
sippi and Virginia are the ones. Which we find to be the 
case : inasmuch, as these three States so managed their 
own affairs as to escape from lending their aid in any way 



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to tile endorsement of the Northern policy. But if you 
will not consider it fanciful — but take it according to the 
symbols — then you have the following illustration : Edom 
signifies red, and refers to a red people, and may well apply 
to Texas as being the country originally of a people with a 
red skin, Indians and Mexicans. Moah, Calmet says, means 
"waters of fathers," or may it not mean in a more anglicized 
form, " Fathers of waters " ? and thus answer to the In- 
dian name, " Mississippi," which translated into English 
means '' Fathers of waters." Ammon signifies people, a 
people, the people. Chief, first or origin, and refers to the 
State of Virginia, it being the first colony, or origin, from 
which sprang the people of this country. (See Phase I., 
of this Treatise.) If these things be not intended by the 
prophet, then are they most wonderful coincidences. But 
if the events spoken of in this verse are yet in the future, 
then may we look for another entrance of the Northern 
army into the glorious sunny South, when many of the 
States will be overthroicn, but that three of them will escape 
his power and ravages. 

Verse 42 : " He shall stretch forth his hand also upon 
the countries." He shall be emboldened by his successes and 
shall put forth an immediate execution of his legislative 
power upon all the States of the Union. Has he not done 
this ? Or is it not in form now before Congress to pass 
the universal suffrage bill, and force upon all the States re- 
gardless of their wishes the right or privilege of all men 
to the elective franchise, without regard to race, color or 
previous condition ? Have they it not in contemplation to 
make the Northern, Middle and Western States to bend 
and bow to their usurped and sovereign will, as well as the 
South ? Let him that readeth understand. " And the land 
of Egypt shall not escape." As the meaning of the word 
*' Egypt " is unknown to philologists, so in like manner are 
the Southern States now unknown to political philologists, 
whether they belong to the Union or not. They are kicked 
about by Congress and made to act only in subserviency to 
the usurpations of the wiU and desire of the Eadical party. 



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If to obtain their purposes it answers to consider them in 
the Union, it is so done ; but if not, then tliey are not in 
the Union. But if this is yet to be fulfilled, then will this 
party now in power put forth all its energy and skill to 
bring into subjection to its will the entire States of the 
Union, North as well as South ; West as well as East, when 
every one shall be more or less at his bidding. Is he not 
seeking this with all the machinations of an insidious 
enemy ? 

Verse 43 : " But " in order to effect this, " he shall have 
power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all 
the precious things of Egypt." Just as is seen to be the 
case at the present day. The entire treasury department 
of the government is at his control, and the moneys thereof 
lavished out without stint. This is patent to every reader 
of governmental affairs, and passing events. So also has 
he power over all the precious things of the South, Every 
thing valuable and dear to the people, is more or less un- 
der and subject to the will and caprice of this Northern 
king. "And the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at 
his steps." The Africans, or negroes, shall be at his com- 
mand to effect his purposes ; just as we find they are now 
in this country. Whenever any measure is to be secured 
here, by the present party in power, appeal is made to the 
negro, and it is almost sure of success. A Southern man 
can have no influence with the negro. He will talk favor- 
ably to your face, but so soon as you are gone, he cleaves 
to imported and pretended friendship. He is emphatically 
under their control — at their steps. In their "loyal leagues," 
the negro has been sworn to vote and act, as he is told to 
act. Hence, you very frequently receive as an answer to 
your inquiry in reference to their conduct : " They — mean- 
ing the carpet-baggers and scalawags — told me / must do 

itr 

If, however, these things be not meant by the prophet, 
and the fulfillment is not yet, then there is to be a time 
when something of a very similar import is to transpire ; 
and we may with the intensest solicitude apprehend events 



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of an astounding character to take place, in which the ne- 
gro will act a conspicuous part, anticipating, as is consonant 
with his nature, " the loaves and fishes." 

Verse 44 : " But tidings out of the East and out of the 
North shall trouble him." This part of the prophecy, and 
in the next verse, we are fully satisfied is not as yet fulfilled ; 
and if we may venture to give expression to our opinion in 
reference thereto, we would say — not presumptuously, we 
trust — that while this Northern party is going on in his 
mad career of unjust, oppressive and unconstitutional le- 
gislation, and military power ; over-riding everything dear 
and sacred in the estimation of the people ; " tidincjs, news 
or a voice from the East, France or Spain probably ; or the 
people in the Eastern part of the United States ; and out 
of the North, England through Canada, Canada itself ; or 
the Northern Democratic party — "shall trouble," vex, or 
disquiet " him." " Therefore, he shall go forth with great 
fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many." From 
being troubled or vexed by the incoming tidings, he will be- 
come mad, reckless, and so unfuriated that he will go forth 
reeking his vengeance on all -in his way. This may be 
done, either by a system of more unjust, greater oppres- 
sive and severer legislation, than has been done hitherto ; 
or superadded to all this, an unholy war. What is here 
suggested from this verse forcibly reminds one of the an- 
cient heathen maxim, " whom the gods wish to destroy, 
they first make mad." And who knows, or can tell, but in 
this case this maxim is to be verified, and is mentioned 
here as a prophetic fact of its perfect realization as stated 
in the next verse ? 

Yerse 45 : "Because of these things that trouble him, 
coming either from abroad or at home, " he shall plant the 
tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glorious 
holy mountain." As we understand it according to the 
symbolic meaning of these terms, he will be so enraged, 
and so pressed from some sources, that he will be induced 
to remove the seat of the Federal government from Wash- 
ington City to some point about midway the Atlantic and 



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Pacific oceans ; say about St. Paul, Minnesota ; St. Louis, 
Missouri, or somewhere on the Mississippi river, and there 
he will make his last strong stand and from which base or 
point the last conflict will ensue. " Yet he shall come to 
his end and none shall help him." When this conflict 
comes, it will be severe — desperate. Yet he who has known 
iio law, but his own will so long ; he that has oppressed 
the weak so much ; he that has been as the whirlwind at- 
tended with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many 
ships ; he that hasstretched forth his hand and overthrown 
many countries ; he that has unchecked control of the gold 
and silver and precious things of the land ; and he that 
has divided the country for gain, "shall come to his end 
and none shall help him." For " when God's time is come 
to bring proud oppressors to their end, none shall he able to 
help them, nor perhaps inclined to help them ; for they that 
covet to he feared by all, when they are in their grandeur, 
when they come to be in distress, will find themselves loved 
hy none ; none will lend them so much as a hand, or a 
prayer, to help them ; and if the Lord do not help them, 
who shall ? " 



REFLECTIONS. 



God's Word is True — Be not disquieted — Wait and see the Salvation of 
the Lord — Both Parties brought to naught— God tvorks His own way— 
We should pray aright — God will anstver Prayer — Not desired that 
Slavery nor the Southern Confederacy should he restored — Humility 
and suffering before exaltation — Extracts from Father Ryan. 

Permit, in conclusion, a few words by way of reflections 
upon the opinions here suggested as to the fulfillment of 
this series of Prophecy, in its application to the contests 
upon this continent. 

In the first place, then, we ask no man to adopt our in- 
terpretation or application as an article of his faith, unless 
he be fully persuaded in his own mind. For we wish you 
to hazard nothing upon our word, for it might chance turn 
out that you would be led from some circumstance or other 
to discredit the Divine Word. This you should not do- 



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God's Word is true, whatever man may think or say. And 
should it occur, as it often does, that sentence against an 
evil-doer is not immediately and directly executed, we 
should not infer from thence, that God winks or connives 
at sin — and should the Lord delay the fulfilling of His 
Word, let us not begin to say with the infidels of ancient 
times, "where is the promise of his coming?" But let us 
in patience wait, and not let our souls become disquieted 
within us, for at the appointed time, he will come, and will 
not tarry. 

Secondly, if the question should be instituted in your 
mind, " what shall I do for the best, under existing circum- 
stances? a^d what shall I do in reference to the future? " 
the answer is, " Be ye not a partaker of their evil deeds," 
and "stand still and see the salvation of God." It is heart- 
rending and mournful to see men of Southern birth and 
Southern principles, compromiting their high native integ- 
rity to court favor and benefit from those tyrannizing over a 
feeble and conquered opponent. Will you for gain fore- 
swear yourself for that which glitters, and for that which 
perishes with the using ? Be firm, be steadfast, unmove- 
able ; show yourself a man, and bow not the knee to Baal. 
Oppression may rest upon you for a season, but deliverance 
will come, and when you then realize it, it will be a com- 
fortable reflection for you and your children, in all coming 
time, to know that you believed your cause just and right, 
and that you dared maintain it. And when you shall have 
passed away from these political conflicts, and laid you 
down to rest, your children in after years will rise up and 
call you blessed for the fair legacy you shall have thus be- 
queathed unto them. 

Thirdly, if we have been correct in our theory of this 
prophec}^ then have we opened unto us a succession of 
events, the most awfully sublime, and fraught with the 
greatest interest of any that have occurred from the be- 
ginning of the world to the present time. Here we have a 
succession of prophecies relative to one great common- 
wealth lapped in the embraces of the frigid zone of the 
North and the torrid zone of the South, and hugged by the 



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two greatest oceans of the world, and running through 
nearly an hundred years, showing the successive rises and 
falls of the two great parties in its political character, down 
to the final contest ; in lohich the one is lost in oblivion, and 
the other comes to its end loith none to help. 

Fourthly, God works according to the counsel of His own 
will, reserving to himself the prerogative of using such 
instruments for the accomplishment of his purposes as his 
own Omniscence dictates ; whether it be men after his own 
heart, or such as do wickedly ; for he maketh even the 
wrath of man to praise him, both in the political and moral 
world. He worketh, and no man should dare question, 
why or what doest thou ? And while the Great I Am ruleth 
the kingdoms of the world — whilst he has reserved to him- 
self the right to set up, to plant, to build and to pull down 
kings and kingdoms, thrones and empu-es. He has also on 
the other hand made it obligatory upon all men to pray 
not only for the peace of Jerusalem, but to pray for all 
men, for kings and for all having authority in the political 
world. And to pray with the same degree of faith for 
them as for any thing else that God alone has promised, or 
can bring to pass. 

But now mark and ponder well this lesson, one that we 
are too much indisposed to learn ; that when we ask of 
God to do anything whatever, we must pray according to 
His will, leaving to Him entirely when and in what manner 
our requests and desires are to be answered. The non- 
observance of this simple rule has caused many to falter, 
become incredulous, unbelieving, infidels, and finally cast- 
a-ways. This is true, not only in reference to individual 
experience, but true also in reference to God being the 
great Moral Governor of the world. We need go no far- 
ther for illustration of this truth than to the severe conflict 
through which we have just past. For four long and bloody 
years, all over this Southern land, did the prayers of mil- 
lions of hearts and lips ascend daily to Heaven's gracious 
and accessible throne for the success of— I shall not say 
"The Lost Cause," for this, in more than one sense, is a 
misnomer— but, for the cause of the just and right, belonging 



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jure divino, to the posterity of Japheth, the white man ; the 
only and proper representative upon earth, of the Almighty 
Maker of all things. But how were these prayers put up ? 
Were they not more frequently offered than otherwise, for 
the success of our arms ? and when a victory was obtained 
over our enemy, it was looked upon as an answer to prayer, 
and all were exultant ; but if a defeat were the result of an 
engagement, we became despondent and unbelieving. Why 
so ? Simply because we had mapped out a plan or results 
in our own minds up to which we expected, yea, required, 
the Almighty to work. So then, when events in the strug- 
gle tallied with our plans, all was well and good : the hand 
of God was recognized, but in reverses He was ignored, 
and the infidel question propounded, " What is the Al- 
mighty that we should serve him ? and what profit shall 
we have, if we pray unto him ? " Forgetting that God was 
as good when He denies, as when He gives. Remember 
always that God is Supreme Kuler of the Universe, and 
He can, and does accomplish His ends. His purposes, by 
any means he may choose, and that often, yea, very often. 
He causes those who would oppress and punish us, to act 
as the very means of our dehverance. Remember the 
three Hebrew children that refused to commit idolatry un- 
der the severe edict of the king of Babylon. Fearing not 
the penalty attached to the Royal command, they little 
knew or expected that Nebuchadnezzar, the king himself, 
would be made subservient in the hands of God to call 
them forth from amidst the burning fiery furnace. Yet so 
it was. Likewise Daniel, when persecuted for serving the 
God of Heaven, and threatened with being cast into the 
den of Uons, prayed still unto the God of Israel, not fear- 
ing the wrath of the king, was delivered from the hons' 
mouths, and king Darius himself acted as the instrument 
in the hands of God for his deliverance. 

What, then, are his people, either in a moral or political 
view, now to fear ? God is " the same yesterday, to-day 
and forever" — the same Almighty, unchangeable Being, 
and can now, at this day, cause the same power or party 
that has so afflicted and oppressed this entire country, so 



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to act as to be the instrument in his hands of delivering 
the land of the oppressions and afflictions they have 
brought upon us, and we have so patiently borne. How, 
God only definitely knows. But we think, from what we 
have seen of the foregoing prophecy, the day is about or 
has already began to dawn, though the receding night is 
yet dark and lowering. Question not the poiuer of the Al- 
mighty to destroy, to pull down, or to pluck up this party, 
even in a moment. How, we repeat, he is to efiect this work, 
we pretend not to inquire. We say not that he will destroy 
them as he did Ashdod and the coasts thereof with 
emerods / we will not assert that He will cause the earth to 
open and swallow them up as He did Korah, Dathan and 
Abiram ; we do not say that he will smite them with blind- 
ness — though he may and can do this — like He did the 
Syrian army when it went to Dothan after Elisha the 
prophet, and were led by him into the land of Samaria be- 
fore they were aware of it. The Almighty can adopt any 
measure, even of the simplest kind, to bring them to naught. 
And no doubt that party has already seen upon the pohti- 
cal wall of their superstructure, the hand-writing, Jlene, 
Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, that has caused their knees, like Bel- 
shazzar's, to smite together : " God hath numbered the 
kingdom, and finished it ; they are weighed in the balances 
and are found wanting ; their kingdom is divided," and 
will soon be given to others. 

What then, do you enquire ? Daniel asked the same 
question of the angel, " What shall the end of these things 
be ? " None can exactly tell until the end shall come. But 
this we may safely say : there will be a change in the char- 
acter of our government. But what shall it be? Defi- 
nitely we cannot tell. But from our investigations of this 
prophecy and comparing it with other scriptures, we have 
come to the following conclusions : 1. God is the Supreme 
Euler of the world, and that he designs to show his right 
to govern the kingdoms of the earth. 2. The various gov- 
ernments of this world are of human origin, and contrary 
to the original designs of heaven. 3. That in order for 
God to assert and show his right to govern the nations, it 



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is his purpose to pull down and destroy the present exist- 
ing governments. 4. In order to this, he will commence 
the work upon this continent, where the last phase of hu- 
man gOTernments has been established — that of what is 
called a Republican government — a government by the peo- 
ple ; one that has asserted vox populi, vox dei. A greater 
mistake could not possibly have been made. This voice of 
the people, is the voice of God in the national government ; 
has originated the doctrine that man is capahh of self-gov- 
a'nment. A great error, that has led to most disastrous re- 
sults. Do not the people upon this continent now fully 
realize the error and fallacy of this doctrine ? Men, na- 
tions, kingdoms, empires, cannot govern themselves. Does 
not the history of every nation under heaven fully attest 
their inability to govern ? Therefore, the idea of erecting 
a monarchy or empire after the manner of men in this 
country is all a chimera of the brain. Men will be used as 
the instruments in the hands of God to break up the pres- 
ent order of things, but then God will establish a govern- 
ment after his own liking, and once the ball of radical 
changing of governments is put in motion on the United 
States, eastward it will move, England and France will 
totter to their fall — onward, and onward still with accele- 
rated velocity it will speed its course until the whole world 
shall be revolutionized and God be recognized as the Su- 
preme Euler and Law-maker of earth's inhabitants. 

It is not contended in all this, nor thought, nay, nor even 
desired, that the institution of slavery, as it was, will be re- 
stored : nor that the Confederacy of the Southern States 
wUl be revived and established, but it is contended that the 
great prominent principles in the contest will be vindicated, 
and in the end prove triumphant. It follows not as a logi- 
cal sequence that migJit is right, or that man or even na- 
tions are the greater sinners, because they are called to 
pass through the severest afflictions. Job was a perfect 
and upright man, who feared God and eschewed evil, yet 
he was called to suffer above his fellows. The eighteen 
persons upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and the Gali- 
leans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices, were 
said by the Saviour of men, not to be sinners above all 



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others bf 'i.ise they suffered such things. Nay, it is a 
principle in the Divine government that toil, suffering, dan- 
ger and abasement, come before exaltation. So it was in 
the case of Daniel, the Hebrew children, the children of 
Israel, but time would fail to speak of others mentioned in 
the Divine chronicles of Nations. 

So we may expect the sufferings, oppressions, tyrannies, 
insults, and persecutions of the people of this land to be 
but the precursors of a day of rejoicing and exaltation. 
" O ye of little faith, how long will ye doubt ?" Weeping 
may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 
Suppose yo, that the prayers, yea the many ten thousand 
prayers offered up in rejoicings and sorrows ; that the toils, 
sufferings, persecutions and oppressions of a noble, intelli- 
gent people, will not be remembered and honored as God 
alone can honor ? Will not all the past yet come up in 
remembrance before God ? And will he not bring order 
out of chaos, and make this his heritage forever ? 

Foy " a land without ruins is a land without memories — 
a land without memories is a land without liberty, A land 
that wears a In arel crown may be fair to see ; but twine a 
few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and 
be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely 
in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sym- 
pathy of the heart of history. Crowns of roses fade — 
crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and crucifixions take 
deepest hold of humanity — the triumphs of might are tran- 
sient — they pass and are forgotten- — the sufferings of right 
are graven deepest on the chronicles of Nations^'' 

Tlidn, " ^ive me the land where the ruins are spread, 
And the hving tread light on the graves of the dead ; 
Yes, give me the laud that is blest by the dust 
t And bright with the deeds of the dowii-trodden just. 

Yes, give me the land wliere the battle's red blast 
Has flashed on the futiu'e the torni of the past : 
Yes, give me the land that hath legends and lays 
That tell of the memories of long vanished days : 
Yes, give me the land that hath story and song, 
To tell of the strife of the right with the wrong : 
Yes, give me a land with a grave on each spot. 
And names in the graves that shall not be forgot ; 
Yes, give me the land of the wreck and the tomb — 
There's grandeur in graves — there's glory in gloom ; 
For out of the gloom future brightness is born, 
As after the night leoms the sunrise of morn ; 
And THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD with the grass overgrown, 
May yet form the footstool of Liberty's throne. 
And each single wreck in the war-path of might, 
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